During the 1970s, Giles W. Mead, then director of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, collected an exemplary group of twenty Balandrán ponchos from Bolivia. It is soon to be offered at the William Siegal Gallery in New Mexico.
San Francisco based St. Frank are championing the placement of textiles on walls with their range of ready framed pieces from around the world
26 – 27 September 2014 Brussels Art Square will welcome a select group of art dealers and galleries from England to exhibit alongside twelve residents of the Sablon.
British folk art- an elusive and often overlooked artistic genre is given high art status at Tate Britain.
English embroideries from the Feller collection go on public display for the first time from 1 August to 12 October 2014 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Cairo under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles, on view until 25 January 2015, features nearly 80 rare fabrics.
Block Prints from the Indus Valley – Textiles collected by Lisette Kampmann in the 1980s, on exhibit until 31 August 2014
The spectacular exhibition, Kimono for a Modern Age, at The Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is a must for anyone interested in design and textiles. Open until 9 October, this is one of eight exhibitions celebrating the 25th anniversary of the pavilion designed by American architect Bruce Goff (1904–1982). Sharon S…. Read more »
The Musée d’Art modern et d’Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), France is showing fifty works by Alexander Calder to 7 September 2014, the Jane Kahan Gallery, New York has original Calder tapestries for sale.
Victor George Atiyeh, who died in Portland, Oregon on 20 July 2014, was born in the city in February 1923 to Syrian immigrant parents. He took over the family business, Atiyeh Brothers rug and carpet store after his father’s death in 1944. Vic Atiyeh was president of the company that became Atiyeh International, Ltd., and actively… Read more »
