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London-based oriental carpet collector/dealer David Reuben, especially well known among the Turkmen rug collecting community, died on 25 April 2014 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. David was born in Basra in 1941, leaving Iraq in 1958 to study chemistry at the…

The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea opens 7 September 2014 until 4 January 2015 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Witness: Embroidery as History in Post Apartheid South Africa, 7 September – 7 December 2014 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion.
Rachel Meek · 1 min
In its 17 th year Asian Art in London will once again make the city the focus of the international Asian art market when it launches at the British Museum on 30 October 2014 with a Gala party and private view of the current exhibition, Ming – 50 Years that Changed China .…

The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Fowler in Focus: Yards of Style, African Print Cloths of Ghana, 24 August 14 December 2014 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion.

How have textiles – among the most fragile and vulnerable artefacts – survived over the centuries? This is a question of great significance to the Textile Museum curators, who last year began to research and develop new ways to conserve and store archaeological textiles.