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The well-known Franco Dell'Orto antique carpet gallery in the charming San Marco area of central Venice, recently moved from it's previous location on Via XXII Marzo to nearby Calle delle Vetse.

The Friday afternoon viewing on 29 November 2013 was rather less well-attended than for past sales, but by the opening of the auction on the afternoon of Saturday 30th November, Rippon Boswell 's Friedrichstrasse saleroom in Wiesbaden was reasonably full. Our impression,…
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Van Ham's auction of Rugs and Tapestries in Cologne, Germany, on 30 October 2013, will be open for bidding online. The preview will be from 26 - 29 October. The sale includes a large selection of reasonably priced rugs and carpets at a venue which has been a happy hunting…
Lucy Upward · 1 min
Among the 120 diverse lots in Koller's carpet sale in Zurich on 19 September 2013 are a number of attractive and interesting tribal and village rugs, not all in prime condition, but generally at enticingly low estimates, as well as a dramatic Uzbek suzani.

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.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, HALI published an occasional (and still incomplete) series of articles that feature and analyse the carpet collections in London's Victoria and Albert Museum . The history of the collection was written by Donald King, the then Keeper of…