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Add to, Take Away: Artistry and Innovation in African Textiles is showing at Dallas Museum of Art to 6 December 2015

A gallery album of selected highlights photographed on the opening evening of the 2015 San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show .
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
The Victoria and Albert Museum have announced a major textile exhibition. The Fabric of India, supported by Good Earth will present 200 handmade objects that will celebrate the variety, virtuosity and incomparable richness of India’s textile traditions, 3 October 2015 - 10…
Rachel Meek · 3 min
The annual Caskey/Lees San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show opens tonight in the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason with the customary Gala.

HALI launches the first in a series of cultural tours in association with Martin Randall Travel: The Decorative Arts of Iberia Tour, 19 - 31 May 2015

‘Woven Connections’, a selling exhibition by Samyama, took place at Woo Gallery in Chiangmai, Thailand, from 18 to 22 January 2015. The purpose was to showcase the early connections of southeast Asian communities through the similarity of pattern and figurative motifs found…