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LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.

The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Sculptural, painterly and vintage textiles as seen in Berkeley Square at PAD London, 14 - 18 October 2015.
Rachel Meek · 1 min
Japanese meisen kimono are the basis for a sumptuous new book, produced by HALI on the collection of Karun Thakar with essays by Thakar himself and Anna Jackson of the V&A.

This autumn Japanese Boro patchwork robes and textiles are seen to be taking centre stage in Portugal. Two exhibitions focussing on Japanese culture and design are showing at the Museu do Design e da Moda (MUDE), Lisbon under the title RAW JAPAN, 10 October to 8 February 2015.

The exhibition 'Tsutsugaki: Japanese Indigo-dyed Textiles' at the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet in Paris until 10 October 2013, brings together works taken from the museum's Krishna Riboud/AEDTA Collection, from a private collection and from Japanese collections,…