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On 11 April 2016 at Drouot in Paris, Gros & Delettrez will offer a large and varied selection of 239 lots of Kashmir shawls and other Indian, Persian, Turkish, North African and European textiles from The Nemati Collection, New York. Among the 239 lots featured will be a…

At Asia Week New York, 10-20 March 2016, both Alan Kennedy, formerly of Paris but now relocated to California, and Milan’s Carlo Cristi are showing textiles among other Asian art objects.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
The annual British Antique Dealers Association Fair is open until 15 March at Duke of York Square on London's King’s Road. “The BADA Fair represents our aspirational community for fine art, design and antiques, providing an outstanding opportunity for collectors to meet and…
Rachel Meek · 2 min
A special (by appointment) exhibition at Gail Martin Gallery during Asia Week New York, 10-19 March 2016, will focus on Asian and Central Asian textiles along with the work of contemporary textile artist Polly Barton.

The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016.

Two striking Tibetan rugs are amongst the 120 objects that feature in ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ on show at Wellcome Collection, London to 28 February 2016.