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Austrian Auction Company's first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online.

LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min'Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes' opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
The annual British Antique Dealers Association Fair is open until 15 March at Duke of York Square on London's King’s Road. “The BADA Fair represents our aspirational community for fine art, design and antiques, providing an outstanding opportunity for collectors to meet and…

‘The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs’ is on display at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA, from 6 March – 8 May 2016.

Subtitled ‘Treasures of Wool and Silk’, the November sale includes 209 lots of overall very high quality drawn from across the chronological and geographic spectrum of carpet weaving in the Eurasian rug belt.