The Arlene and Arthur Holden Textile Gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art is the setting for an installation a Persian royal ‘Rasht-work’ round tent, with inscriptions, made for Muhammad Shah Qajar, who ruled Iran from 1834 to 1848, on show to 26 June 2016.
Japanese meisen kimono are the basis for a sumptuous new book, produced by HALI on the collection of Karun Thakar with essays by Thakar himself and Anna Jackson of the V&A.
One of the world’s foremost collections of textiles, the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, Switzerland, places Italian velvets under its forensic gaze in its seasonal special exhibition.
‘Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices’ is the first exhibition of art in Australia to present the artistic and cultural interactions between Europe & Asia from the 16th – 19th centuries, the ‘Age of Spices’
A major exhibition of royal Hawaiian featherwork will be on show at San Francisco’s de Young Museum from 29 August 2015 – 28 February 2016
