With most major museums across the world temporarily closed, our study and appreciation of antique carpets and textiles are forced to move online. Luckily, many institutions now have collection databases with high-resolution images and thorough catalogue entries. Here are three great resources for discovering new and old carpet and textile favourites.
‘Rethreading & Retracing: Textiles and Techniques by Bita Ghezelayagh’ at the Aga Khan Centre Gallery in London explores the artist’s long-standing interest in working with found materials such as antique carpet fragments. Deborah Freeman Fahid pays a visit.
Textiles assembled by seven pioneering collectors, active between 1900 and 2018, and drawn from seven public collections in the UK were the focus of the annual exhibition (25 January-19 April 2020) held at Two Temple Place on London’s Embankment.
Werner Weber’s collection of little-known kilims from Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran returns to St. Gallen’s Historical and Ethnological Museum in early spring.
Currently on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ traces the sartorial and social significance of the kimono from the 1660s to the present day, both in Japan and in the rest of the world.
Many exhibitions, discussions and talks are set to take place in the heart of New York City as part of the annual celebration of Asian art, Asia Week New York, 12-19 March 2020.
You are invited to the 10th anniversary edition of the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA).
Last chance to see the exhibition ‘Weaving beyond the Bauhaus’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
The commission of a Russian carpet recently sold at Christie’s and how it entered Empress Maria Feodorovna’s (1759-1828) Pavlovsk Palace make for an interesting story.
Many exhibits, discussions and talks are taking place in the heart of the British capital as part of Asian Art in London, 31 October-9 November.
