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The Great Scottish Tapestry on show in Edinburgh
The twelve thousand year history of Scotland has been stitched into a 143 metre, 160-panel embroidered wall hanging that will be on show at the Scottish Parliament until 21 September 2013
Italian Renaissance Textiles in Cleveland, Ohio
Until Tuesday, December 10, 2013, an installation at the Cleveland Museum of Art presents some 15 sumptuous Italian silks, velvets, and altar frontals of the 14th and 15th centuries from the CMA’s world-class collection.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Tsutsugaki: Indigo Textiles of Japan at the Guimet, Paris
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,…
Lucy Upward · 2 min
Baluchtreffen 2013: Prayer Rugs
Frank Martin Diehr reports: On the second weekend in June, the tiny village of Taura, near Chemnitz in Saxony became the hub of the Baluch collecting world, with participants in annual German-speaking Baluch collectors’ meeting coming from as far afield as the USA and Sweden.
The Thyssen Mughal Hunting Carpet at Sotheby's
This mid-17th century North Indian Mughal carpet, until recently furnishing the Swiss home of the late Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, sold at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, London, on 3 July 2013 (lot 23) for £314,000, approximately three times its lower estimate.
