Until Tuesday, December 10, 2013, an installation at the Cleveland Museum of Art presents some 15 sumptuous Italian silks, velvets, and altar frontals of the 14th and 15th centuries from the CMA’s world-class collection.
The exhibition ‘Tsutsugaki: Japanese Indigo-dyed Textiles’ at the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet in Paris until 10 October 2013, brings together works taken from the museum’s Krishna Riboud/AEDTA Collection, from a private collection and from Japanese collections, including pieces that have never left the country before.
Frank Martin Diehr reports: On the second weekend in June, the tiny village of Taura, near Chemnitz in Saxony became the hub of the Baluch collecting world, with participants in annual German-speaking Baluch collectors’ meeting coming from as far afield as the USA and Sweden.
The 17th-century Turkish tent on display at the Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, is the largest of its kind in Poland, and is one of the most valuable historical mementoes in the Wawel collection and indeed all of Europe.
On 30 June 2013, The Cleveland Museum of Art opened its new North Wing galleries with an inaugural exhibition ‘Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900’, which reveals the museum’s exceptional oriental textiles collection to the world for the first time in almost a decade
Don’t miss your chance to see From the Exotic to the Mystical: Woven Treasures from the Permanent Collection, at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, on show till 4 August 2013.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Cloisters in New York and 75 years of the Unicorn Tapestries being a focal point of that collection, the Cloisters is currently holding an exhibition ‘Search for the Unicorn, An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters’ 75th Anniversary’
San Francisco Bay Area antique rug and textile dealer Thomas Cole, who is also an accomplished photographer, has travelled to India several times in recent years, camera in hand. Selections from his photographs have been published on his website, via social media, and in a series of gallery exhibits in Marin County. His third and… Read more »
A superb 17th century carpet from Persia leads a record breaking auction of carpets at Sotheby’s New York, selling for $33m, and putting rugs in the same collecting category as Old Master and Modern paintings
This first Parting Shots On-Line Album comes from the BARE antique carpet and textile fair in Berlin.
