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Return of a Champion: The Vanderbilt Indian Star-Lattice Carpet to be offered at CLO
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…
Sartirana Textile Show, 2013
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
Turkish Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The last in the series of early HALI articles by the team of Donald King, Robert Pinner and Michael Franses on the carpets in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is an in-depth survey and detailed documentation of the museum's historical Turkish carpets…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Nagel, Stuttgart: Rugs & Carpets, 10 September 2013
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
Tribal art returns to Parcours des Mondes 2013, Paris
Parcours des Mondes is returning for its twelfth year as the most prestigious European show of tribal art, with sixty galleries participating in 2013
