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The specialist sale: Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries is held at the Viennese auction house, Dorotheum at 4pm on 12 September.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
Austria Auction Company and Udo Langauer's busy schedule of sales of Antique Collector Rugs continues on 22 August 2017 in Vienna.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Henry's in Mutterstadt, Germany will hold its 9th International Special Auction of Rugs & Carpets on Saturday 10 June 2017. The 321 lots encompass a wide variety of late 19th and 20th-century Persian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Turkmen rugs.

The last week of April 2017 sees the textile arts represented in three separate Christie's auctions. First, at King Street on on Tuesday 25th, 'Noble & Private Collections I' includes a number of European tapestries, notable among them a 16th century Franco-Flemish…