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The Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ presents ‘Antique Carpets Through the Eyes of W. Parsons’, which features seventeen rarely seen antique carpets and related books that informed rug collectors in the early 20th century.

‘Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum (until 1 May 2016) in Los Angeles is the first major museum exhibition of tapestries on the West Coast in four decades.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
‘Esthétiques de l’Amour: Sibérie extreme-orientale’ at Musée du quai Branly, Paris is showing decorative art from far eastern Siberia to 17 January 2016
Rachel Meek · 1 min
From 11th November – 20 March 2016, The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents ‘Art of the Zo: Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh’, an exhibition of woven Chin textiles

The 2015 edition of Volkmann-Treffen will take place on 16–18 October 2015 at the Museum für Islamische Kunst/Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin.

The first exhibition of items from the Keir Collection, funded by an $800,000 endowment from Kosmos Energy, is opening at DMA on 18 September 2015.