LARTA The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, 22-27 January 2019
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.
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.
At Christie’s in London on 25 October, the all-encompassing ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ sale includes more than eighty other rugs and carpets, from most time periods and weaving cultures.
A fresh approach turned a recent French exhibition on Qajar culture into something more than just an art show. Venetia Porter was at the Louvre-Lens to experience the transformation. Hadi Maktabi comments on the carpets.
A small Afshar rug from the Corwin Collection is dissected by Thomas Cole.
Although unsigned, this grand Khamseh Confederacy carpet, of unusually large size and great artistic merit, was likely made for a tribal khan by a weaver of the Baharlu or Ainalu tribes.
Christie’s Louise Broadhurst spots spectacular carpets and textiles at an exhibition in Florence.
Watch the video HALI produced for ‘Arte Ottomana 1450-1600. Natura e Astrazione: uno sguardo sulla Sublime Porta’
Ever wondered what the toxins you use to kill the moths might do to you? Ever used Eulan on a rug? Struggled to find the right solution to restore or mount a textile? The participants at this year’s Volkmanntreffen certainly had some good questions
Amsterdam’s foremost rug rug dealer Ali Foumani ( Foumani Persian Gallery) has joined forces with Robert Aronson of Aronson Antiquairs, a leading specialist in 17th and 18th century Dutch Delftware, to present a meeting of cultures in ‘From Isfahan to Delft, at Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 39, Amsterdam, until 13 October 2013.
The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art is to lend over eighty works to the first major exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the Hajj.