Tribal Art London
Tribal Art London opened on 11 September at the Mall Galleries, visitors can view fine examples of tribal art there until 13 September.
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Fowler at UCLA: South African Embroidery
The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Witness: Embroidery as History in Post Apartheid South Africa, 7 September – 7 December 2014 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion.
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Carpet Museum opens in Baku
On August 26 2014 an official opening ceremony was held for the new building to house the Azerbaijan State Museum of Carpets in Baku. The construction at the Seaside National Park has been six years in the making, with the foundation being laid in May 2008. The five storey structure designed by Austrian architect Franz… Read more »
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Oriental Rugs from the Gerard Paquin Collection, MFA, Boston
This small loan exhibition in the rotunda at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston focuses on rugs and bags made in nomadic and village environments from West Anatolia to Persia and Central Asia
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Fowler at UCLA: Ghana Prints
The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Fowler in Focus: Yards of Style, African Print Cloths of Ghana, 24 August 14 December 2014 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion.
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In Memoriam: David M. Reuben, 1941-2014
London-based oriental carpet collector/dealer David Reuben, especially well known among the Turkmen rug collecting community, died on 25 April 2014 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. David was born in Basra in 1941, leaving Iraq in 1958 to study chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Then, after three years in the US Army,… Read more »
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Archaeology, Textiles and Preservation in Toronto
How have textiles – among the most fragile and vulnerable artefacts – survived over the centuries? This is a question of great significance to the Textile Museum curators, who last year began to research and develop new ways to conserve and store archaeological textiles.
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Image conscious: textiles and photographs of India
Richard Mull writes: San Rafael’s Tom Cole is well known to the rug and textile world for his writings on, among other things, Tibetan, Baluch, Turkmen, and other Central Asian material. His photographic talents, however, have been underappreciated. Given his eye for the beauty and colour of woven art, this second string to his bow… Read more »
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Bolivian Aymara ponchos at Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe
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.
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St. Frank Framed Textiles
San Francisco based St. Frank are championing the placement of textiles on walls with their range of ready framed pieces from around the world
