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Sotheby’s New York will offer 175 lots of ‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ on 31 January 2014, making a genuine virtue of the value of provenance.

TEFAF Maastricht will take place at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) on the 14 – 23 March 2014.
Rachel Meek · 3 min
Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present will take place at the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, on view till 2 March 2014.
Lucy Upward · 1 min
The Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany will host To Open Eyes: Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today till 16 February 2014

The Movses Khorenatsi Medal has been awarded to Volkmar Gantzhorn, for his huge tome The Christian Oriental Carpet, which has been revised and published in Armenia.

The Rautenstracuh-Joest Museum's new special exhibition 'Made in Oceania: Tapa - Art and Social Landscapes' presents a number of unique tapa (bark cloth) masterpieces dating back to the 18th century, on show until 27 April 2014.