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SF Tribal & Textile Art Show at 30
The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016.
Alice de Rothschild’s Vase Carpet Trio at Christie's
For Christie’s next major London carpet sale at King Street on 19 April 2016, head of department Louise Broadhurst has secured the consignment by ‘A Nobleman’ of three previously unknown and unpublished Safavid ‘vase-technique’ carpets.
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
Tibet’s Secret Temple, Wellcome Collection, London
Two striking Tibetan rugs are amongst the 120 objects that feature in ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ on show at Wellcome Collection, London to 28 February 2016.
Rachel Meek · 3 minScandinavian Carpets at Artcurial
Artcurial’s second auction in Paris dedicated exclusively to Scandinavian design features three noteworthy 20th-century Swedish carpets.
Kongo: Power and Majesty at the Met
‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum tells the little known story of the earliest encounters between expansionary western trading powers and the kingdoms of the Central African coast.
