Udo Langauer’s upcoming sale of antique oriental rugs at Austria Auction Company’s Palais Breuner saleroom in Vienna’s Singerstrasse on Saturday 15 December 2018 includes quality rugs from the excellent collection of the late Theo Häberli.
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.
The Washington Textile Museum, now part of the US capital’s George Washington University, has received a $18.4 million gift of more than 4,000 textiles, together with purpose-built cabinetry and an endowment, from the 1985 Trust set up by Lloyd Cotsen, former CEO of Neutrogena.
‘Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles’ is open at Yale University Art Gallery until 18 September 2016. Woven tunics, mantles and wall hangings as well as related feather, gold and silver objects, tools and ceramics ranging in date from 900 BCE to the 16th century CE are on loan from two private collections.
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.
The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016.
