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'Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace, Bolzano (Bozen)
‘Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace in Bolzano (Bozen), exhibition review by Ben Evans from HALI 201.
The Fifth International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets, Baku
The 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017) took place on 17-20 October 2017 in Baku. The programme was ambitious, with three days of lectures, museum exhibitions and numerous cultural events.
Malin Lonnberg · 2 min
Kashmir shawls and other antique textiles from the Nemati Collection. Drouot Paris, 11 April 2016
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…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Arts of India, including textiles, Christie's South Kensington, 12 June
CSK's summer Arts of India sale on 12 June 2104 includes several dozen Indian and southeast Asian textiles, including antique painted and block printed cotton chintz palampores, export chintzes, embroideries, painted temple cloths and a range of Kashmiri, Persian and European…
Some antique carpet and textile highlights at Rippon Boswell's 30 November 2013 auction
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,…