Empowering Refugees Through Carpet Weaving
The Anka Cooperative, a social enterprise in association with US rug producer Woven Legends, is turning to Kickstarter to improve the lives of even more refugee women.
News: Contemporary textile art
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A Textile Affair | Textiles As Art: Paul Reeves Collection | Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 23 February
On Thursday 23 February, Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh are offering an interesting and often amusing selection of ‘Textiles as Art’ from the Paul Reeves Collection. Estimates range from the low hundreds of pounds to more than £20,000. Reeves, who began collecting British furniture and artefacts over forty years ago, He opened his first shop… Read more »
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Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries at Summer Olympia Fair 2016
A selection of oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries, antique and contemporary, as well as tribal art, seen on exhibitors’ stands at this year’s Olympia Fair.
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Kum Kapi at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
For ‘Kum Kapi’, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is drawing on little known items from its collection to display a handful of very fine Istanbul workshop rugs.
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Seth Siegelaub at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
An extract from an exhibition review by Alan Kennedy of ‘Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art’ at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 – 17 April 2017.
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London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) 14-17 April 2016
LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.
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Sydney Opera House unveil Le Corbusier tapestry
The Sydney Opera House have unveiled a bold tapestry by Le Corbusier, purpose designed for the building in 1960.
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Asia Week, New York, 10-19 March: Textile Art at Gail Martin Gallery
A special (by appointment) exhibition at Gail Martin Gallery during Asia Week New York, 10-19 March 2016, will focus on Asian and Central Asian textiles along with the work of contemporary textile artist Polly Barton.
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