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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.
Lucy Upward · 1 min
San Francisco based St. Frank are championing the placement of textiles on walls with their range of ready framed pieces from around the world
Rachel Meek · 1 min
Richard Mull writes: San Rafael’s Tom Cole is well known to the rug and textile world for his writings on, among other things, Tibetan, Baluch, Turkmen, and other Central Asian material. His photographic talents, however, have been underappreciated. Given his eye for the…

26 – 27 September 2014 Brussels Art Square will welcome a select group of art dealers and galleries from England to exhibit alongside twelve residents of the Sablon.

As Turkey celebrated her 600-year friendship with Poland – dated from their first recorded treaty in 1414 – Istanbul’s Sakıp Sabancı Museum held an exhibition, recently ended ( 7 March–15 June 2014) , of Ottoman works of art and Polish imitations drawn from both Polish and…