‘The Fabric of India’, co-curated by Rosemary Crill, is on show at Cincinnati Art Museum until 6 January 2019. The US show is based on the 2015-2016 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition featuring two-hundred handmade Indian textiles from the fifteenth century to today.
LARTA, The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, a celebration of colour and design in antique rug and textile art from 22-27 January 2019.
Henry’s Auktionshaus will be offering a selection of 416 lots at their special winter auction, ‘Collector Carpets’ on 8 December 2018.
The UK’s first major retrospective of the work of Anni Albers (1899-1994) is now on show at the Tate Modern in London until 27 January 2019. Exhibits range from the Bauhaus artist’s small-scale ‘pictorial weavings’ to wall-hangings and source material for her influential publication ‘On Weaving’ from 1965.
Rippon Boswell & Co. will auction 273 lots including rugs belonging to the private collections of Dr. Harald Böhmer as well as Dr. Günther Rapp, at the Major Autumn Auction in Wiesbaden on 17 November 2018.
In HALI 195 of Spring 2018, Fatima Žutić reports on the long-unseen but often-mentioned 17th-century Kerman ‘vase technique’ carpet fragments, revealed to the public in February of this year at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Williamsburg and on show until February 2019.
The annual celebration of Asian art taking place in the British capital, 1-10 November, has much to offer in terms of textiles.
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.
