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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.

The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery opened at the Dallas Museum of Art on 18 April 2017, with a long-term installation in a new purpose-designed space dedicated to Islamic art. The new installation features more than 100 works from the Keir Collection, including a…
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
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…
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
A major exhibition, ‘Sérénissime Trame: Carpets from the Zaleski Collection and Renaissance Paintings’, opens on Thursday 23 March 2017 at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro in Venice.

'Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India’, the current exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar (15 March–4 November 2017), brings a new perspective to the MIA’s remarkable permanent collection.

HALI previews the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA), now at Battersea Park.