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Udo Langauer’s upcoming sale of antique oriental rugs at Austria Auction Company’s Palais Breuner saleroom in Vienna’s Singerstrasse on Saturday 15 December 2018 includes quality rugs from the excellent collection of the late Theo Häberli.

Galleria Battilossi have opened a new showroom in Turin with an inaugural 'Antique Textile Art I' exhibition of exceptional antique textiles from a prominent private collection.
Katie Welch · 2 min
A newly opened gallery in London will place carpets—and this summer, Central Asian suzanis—at the heart of its programme. HALI Editor Ben Evans visits.
David Young · 3 min
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The ‘Teppich Engelhardt’ liquidation sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 20 May 2017 marks the end of an era for what was once one of post-war Germany’s largest and best known oriental carpet dealerships, Engelhardt of Mannheim.

The last week of April 2017 sees the textile arts represented in three separate Christie's auctions. First, at King Street on on Tuesday 25th, 'Noble & Private Collections I' includes a number of European tapestries, notable among them a 16th century Franco-Flemish…