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Highlights from the Rugs & Carpets, Textiles & Islamic Art sale at Nagel Auction, Stuttgart, 13 September 2016

A selection of oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries, antique and contemporary, as well as tribal art, seen on exhibitors' stands at this year's Olympia Fair.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
For 'Kum Kapi', the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is drawing on little known items from its collection to display a handful of very fine Istanbul workshop rugs.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
Austrian Auction Company's first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online.

' An Exemplary Decorative Antique and Vintage Carpet Collection by Nazmiyal ' on 4 April 2016 was the first carpet auction of any substance at Bonhams in New York in our memory. The selection was broad, with pile and flatwoven carpets both Oriental and European in origin and…

LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.