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The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London will take place from Wednesday 25th September until Sunday 29th September 2013.

Lot 50 in Christie’s London (King Street) carpet sale on 8 October 2013, the Vanderbilt North Indian star and cross lattice pashmina pile carpet is a former holder of the world record price for an oriental carpet at auction. Now estimated at £1.5 to £2 million, it could…
Daniel Shaffer · 3 min
The 9th annual Sartirana Textile Show will take place from 19-22 September 2013 at Sartirana Castle in Lomellina, near Milan, Italy. More than fifty dealers, national and international, will be participating in one of the largest ever such shows, with a programme that…
Lucy Upward · 1 min
Nagel Auktionen's sale in Stuttgart of Rugs, Carpets and Ethnographic Art on 10 September 2013 includes a full and varied complement of Turkish, Persian, Caucasian, Turkmen, Indian, Chinese and East Turkestan weavings

Parcours des Mondes is returning for its twelfth year as the most prestigious European show of tribal art, with sixty galleries participating in 2013

Mohammad Tehrani and his wife Sabine have just opened a new gallery at Alstertor 20 in Ecke Ballindam in the centre of Hamburg , while their old gallery in Neue Gröningerstrasse is now closed.