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The Alberto Levi Gallery in Milan are currently showing Front/Back, an online exhibition of small tribal Persian weavings.

Dorotheum Vienna presents Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries on Tuesday 16 September 2014, with viewing from 11-16 September.
Lucy Upward · 2 min
Nagel kicks off the Autumn rug season with a hefty sale of 369 lots with a variety of consignments from rugs and textiles, antiques and tribal art and the Islamic pottery collection F. J. Amon.
Lucy Upward · 1 min
Henry's auctioneers in Mutterstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of southwestern Germany will hold a special sale of 'Collector's Carpets' on the 1st of June. By no means a household name on the oriental carpet circuit, this 200-lot sale includes several very good…

Copenhagen art auctioneers Bruun Rasmussen’s first international sale of the year on 26 February 2014 included a good selection of fine 20th century Persian workshop pieces.