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Book of the week: Kimono-Meisen by Anna Jackson and Karun Thakar
In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Kimono-Meisen. The Karun Thakar Collection.
Book of the week: Tibetan Dress in Amdo and Kham
In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of a rug and textile interest. This week we look at Tibetan Dress in Amdo and Kham, published in 2017.
David Young · 1 min
Uzbek Silks from the Megalli Collection in Houston
‘Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats’, an unmissable loan exhibition of some fifty dazzling silk robes and panels from the collection of the late Murad Megalli, is now open at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas until 4 June 2017.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Thomas Murray Online Exhibition: Sumbanese Textiles
A special exhibition of textiles from Sumba, curated by Thomas Murray and drawing from his extensive collection, is now online.
Rediscovery of a Tudor Dress Fragment
Curators from the Historic Royal Palaces in the UK have identified an embroidered altar cloth as a rare fragment of Elizabethan dress.
