The First International Symposium at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles – Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond will take place 5-9 November 2013.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Cloisters in New York and 75 years of the Unicorn Tapestries being a focal point of that collection, the Cloisters is currently holding an exhibition ‘Search for the Unicorn, An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters’ 75th Anniversary’
Netherhampton Salerooms’ auction of Carpets, Rugs and Textiles in Salisbury, England on 10 July 2012 includes the the second part of a European private collection of kilims, mainly Anatolian.
For over a millenium, plant motifs in the form of vines, leaves, flowers, fruits, and trees were among those most frequently used in the art of the Islamic world. Many of these works were created in the hot, barren regions of the Middle East, and the lush Paradise as described in the Qur’an would have appealed to the Muslim artists.
Sotheby’s New York sale of Important 20th Century Design totaled a strong $4,738,940, almost reaching its pre-sale high estimate of $5 million.
The world record setting Clark sickle leaf Kerman carpet, the massive Lafoes Esfahan, and the extraordinarily rare and beautiful Cairene round carpet, have hogged the headlines, but there were also another 22 lots sold for astonishing prices in Sotheby’s 100% successful sale of Classical Persian, Egyptian and Indian carpets in New York on 5 June.
As the public face of the Royal Tropical Institute, the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is one of Europe’s leading ethnographic museums and is set to close…
San Francisco Bay Area antique rug and textile dealer Thomas Cole, who is also an accomplished photographer, has travelled to India several times in recent years, camera in hand. Selections from his photographs have been published on his website, via social media, and in a series of gallery exhibits in Marin County. His third and… Read more »
A superb 17th century carpet from Persia leads a record breaking auction of carpets at Sotheby’s New York, selling for $33m, and putting rugs in the same collecting category as Old Master and Modern paintings
Exhibitors with items of special interest to HALI readers in the wide-open spaces of this year’s summer Olympia fair in London, until 16 June, include Galerie Arabesque (Ulrike Montigel), Esther Fitzgerald, Clive Loveless, Tribal Gathering (Bryan Reeves), Johanna Booth, Gallery Yacou, Brian Macdonald and Potterton Books,
