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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.

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.
Ben Evans · 1 min
' 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.

Christie’s spring Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction on 19 April 2016 in London is headlined by an amazing trio of 17th-century Kerman ‘Vase-technique’ carpets that were once the property of Baroness Alice de Rothschild, but there is far more to the King Street sale.