‘Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats’, an unmissable loan exhibition of some fifty dazzling silk robes and panels from the collection of the late Murad Megalli, is now open at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas until 4 June 2017.
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.
Join HALI and celebrate Nowruz with a special lecture by Dr Hadi Maktabi on 6 April 2017 at 7pm at the V&A in London, followed by a drinks reception.
The third and final auction by Rippon Boswell of antique Central Asian suzani embroideries, Anatolian kilims, and Persian/Caucasian flatweaves from the incomparable Ignazio Vok Collection is to be held at Rippon Boswell’s Friedrichstrasse salesroom on Saturday 25 March 2017.
The fifth International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017), titled ‘Traditions and Innovations’ will happen 17-20 October 2017 in Baku in partnership with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC).
A special exhibition of textiles from Sumba, curated by Thomas Murray and drawing from his extensive collection, is now online.
It is all happening in Baku this year. In addition to the 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijan Carpets: Traditions and Innovations (17-29 October), from 22-24 May the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum will host the 2nd International Symposium of The Common Language of the Turkic World – Patterns.
For Bruun Rasmussen’s mixed Furniture and Carpets sale on 1 March 2017 at Bredegade 33 in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, Henrik Schleppegrell has assembled about seventy carpet lots.
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 »
Peter Pap will present highly collectible weavings from four well-known and important US private collections at two venues in San Francisco in February.
