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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…
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,…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
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
Lucy Upward · 1 min
Parting Shots Online: BARE, Berlin, 30 May-2 June 2013
This first Parting Shots On-Line Album comes from the BARE antique carpet and textile fair in Berlin.
De Young Museum, San Francisco: From the Exotic to the Mystical: Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection
From the Exotic to the Mystical: Woven Treasures from the Permanent Collection, at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park until 4 August 2013, consists of more than 40 objects, most never before on public display, representing 15 centuries of textile arts drawn from the Fine…
