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Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles First International Symposium
The First International Symposium at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles - Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond will take place 5-9 November 2013.
Search for the Unicorn at the Cloisters, New York
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Cloisters in New York and 75 years of the Unicorn Tapestries being a focal point of that collection, the Cloisters is currently holding an exhibition 'Search for the Unicorn, An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters' 75th Anniversary'
Lucy Upward · 1 min
Don't Miss India: An Exhibition of Photographs of Textiles from the Subcontinent
San Francisco Bay Area antique rug and textile dealer Thomas Cole, who is also an accomplished photographer, has travelled to India several times in recent years, camera in hand. Selections from his photographs have been published on his website , via social media , and in a…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Lyon - Splendours in the City of Silk: 1. Textiles, by Georgina Adam
In the mid 1980s HALI published a series of four articles on the textiles and carpets in the collection of the Musée Historique des Tissus (MHT) in Lyons, France. The first article, by Georgina Adam, in HALI 32, focused on a select handful of the historical textiles in Lyon,…
New world record for a carpet sold at auction
A superb 17th century carpet from Persia leads a record breaking auction of carpets at Sotheby's New York, selling for $33m, and putting rugs in the same collecting category as Old Master and Modern paintings
