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'Asian Textiles: Art and Trade Along the Silk Road', Dallas Museum of Art
Drawn from Dallas Museum of Art's collection and currently on show, 'Asian Textiles: Art and Trade Along the Silk Road' has been extended until 18 August 2019.
Traded Treasures: Indian Textiles for Global Markets
Currently on show at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, 'Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets', spans five hundred years of the history of India’s thriving commerce to Southeast Asia, Europe, and Japan, an exhibition that reveals why…
Katie Welch · 5 min
An eye for the tigers
Exclusive rugs designed by contemporary artists take the tiger and traditional tiger rugs as inspiration—and, as Stephanie Douglas explains, aim to support the conservation of these awe-inspiring creatures.
Katie Welch · 10 min
‘The Fabric of India’, Cincinnati Art Museum, closing 6 January 2019
'The Fabric of India', co-curated by Rosemary Crill, is on show at Cincinnati Art Museum until 6 January 2019. The US show is based on the 2015-2016 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition featuring two-hundred handmade Indian textiles from the fifteenth century to today.
Asian Art in London
The annual celebration of Asian art taking place in the British capital, 1-10 November, has much to offer in terms of textiles.
