Jose Luis Herrero, owner of Spanish textile gallery, Estudio H is holding an exhibition of ’13 Textiles for The Contemporary Home’ at Galeria espacioBRUT, Madrid, 18 October – 12 November 2014. Herrero’s great passion for tribal textile art has driven him to present objects in decontextualised, contemporary settings that highlight and accentuate their inherent beauty…. Read more »
Click here for a selection of images from the exhibition.
Saved for the nation: Acquisition of Jewish embroidered hangings by the Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor, 26 March 2014-25 October 2015.
New museums in Toronto, Geneva, Milan and Baku
Light on Persia, an exhibition of tribal Persian weavings will be on show at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor, Thomas Cole in California 14 October – 1 December 2014.
From Ashgabat to Istanbul opens at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto 8 October 2014 to 19 April 2015. The following is taken from an overview of the exhibition by the Curator, Natalia Nekrassova, read it in full in HALI issue 181.
Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance is on 8 October 2014 to 11 January 2015 in the Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sixty-one pieces of 17th century English embroidery have been gifted to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by local residents, Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
From 15 – 21 September 2014 the ICOC Tour Vienna – Budapest takes place, organised by the International Conference on Carpets (ICOC) in conjunction with the Austrian Society for Textile-Art-Research-TKF.
Taking place until 1 February 2015, East of the Wallace Line: Monumental Art from Indonesia and New Guinea at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
