Tomorrow will be the final day to visit the Kensington Antique Rug Mercantile Association 2013 Fair, open from 11am – 9.30pm. Annually coinciding with Olympia Fine Art Fair, KARMA will be exhibiting nearby at 3rd and 4th floors 202 Apartments, 202 Kensington Church St, Kensington, London.
This first Parting Shots On-Line Album comes from the BARE antique carpet and textile fair in Berlin.
BARE – The Berlin Antique Rug Exhibition, the newest of the rug and textile world’s marketing enterprises, was held within the grittily atmospheric surroundings of the Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 2, from Friday 31 May – 2 June 2013. The event was organised by Tim Steinert and Carpet Collector Magazine, and included about thirty European dealers…. Read more »
A huge new world record price at auction for a Central Asian suzani of any description helped to brighten the day at Rippon Boswell’s 25 May 2013 sale of collector carpets and textiles.
BARE, a new trade fair for antique rugs and textiles will be held in Berlin at the Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 2 from Friday 31 May – 2 June 2013.
From the Exotic to the Mystical: Woven Treasures from the Permanent Collection, at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park until 4 August 2013, consists of more than 40 objects, most never before on public display, representing 15 centuries of textile arts drawn from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s extensive holdings.
Red, White and Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870, at the Denver Art Museum until 22 September 2013, presents about 50 of the greatest examples of Navajo design expression.
This week the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will be unveiling a new gallery space, Cover Story, which will exhibit over sixty artefacts from the museum’s textile collection. The objects explore the ways in which textiles have been used by different cultures across centuries of time.
All 61 lots in The Andy Williams Collection of Navajo Blankets (actually 58 blankets and three baskets) on Tuesday 21 May at Sotheby’s in New York found buyers, for a total of just under a million dollars.
‘A Shot of Rhythm and Colour: English Textile Design of the Late 19th Century’, at the Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna Until 13 October 2013, offers a representative survey of the MAK’s major collection of European Arts & Crafts textiles
