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There was a distinctly autumnal feel about the recent London sales season, at least as far as antique rugs and textiles were concerned. Although the main action, at Christie’s King Street on Tuesday 7th October 2014 , yielded £1,513,375 ($2,435,020), representing 59% sold by…

Gail Martin has relocated her textile art showroom to her spacious apartment just four blocks away from the previous Gail Martin Gallery location on Riverside Drive, New York.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
The first sale at the Hazara Gallery Auction Co. takes place at 11 am on 18 October 2014, here we present a selection of highlights.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
The Alberto Levi Gallery in Milan are currently showing Front/Back, an online exhibition of small tribal Persian weavings.

Light on Persia, an exhibition of tribal Persian weavings will be on show at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor, Thomas Cole in California 14 October – 1 December 2014.

From Ashgabat to Istanbul opens at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto 8 October 2014 to 19 April 2015. The following is taken from an overview of the exhibition by the Curator, Natalia Nekrassova, read it in full in HALI issue 181.