The Antique Rug & Textile Art Association (ARTAA) presents — ARTS, the annual Antique Rug & Textile Show at the Motel Capri in the Marina District of San Francisco, 17-20 October, 2013. ARTS is the largest US show with a focus exclusively on authentic antique rugs and textiles from weaving cultures from across the world and a highlight of… Read more »
‘Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800,’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to 5 January 2014, is a staggering story of hidden treasures covering more than three centuries of art from all corners of the world.
No Star like a good old Star: The Vanderbilt Indian pashmina millefleurs carpet at Christie’s, London.
Christie’s sale of Arts & Textiles of the Islamic & Indian Worlds at South Kensington on 11 October includes the first Bukhara large-medallion suzani to appear at auction for six years, estimated at only £20-30,000.
Amsterdam’s foremost rug rug dealer Ali Foumani ( Foumani Persian Gallery) has joined forces with Robert Aronson of Aronson Antiquairs, a leading specialist in 17th and 18th century Dutch Delftware, to present a meeting of cultures in ‘From Isfahan to Delft, at Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 39, Amsterdam, until 13 October 2013.
The Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale at Christie’s, King Street, on 10 October includes a good selection of Ottoman and Safavid textiles among the works of art and works on paper from across the Islamic and Indian Worlds.
The First International Symposium at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles – Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond will take place 5-9 November 2013.
Sotheby’s Autumn sale of Arts of the Islamic World features a selection of paintings, manuscripts, carpets, and textiles, exemplifying the broad artistic traditions of the Muslim World.
This autumn, in addition to the full range of antique Islamic and Indian works of Art, including textiles, Bonhams’ major Bond Street sale on Tuesday 8th October also offers a small number (20 lots only) of oriental carpets for the first time.
In addition to the eye-catching Vanderbilt North Indian pashmina star-lattice carpet (lot 50), Christie’s autumn sale of rugs and carpets at King Street, London, on 8 October 2013, includes a wide and varied range of consignments from across the carpet weaving spectrum.
