‘From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston celebrates the acquisition of 187 Indian textiles from the collection of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia, one of the most comprehensive private collections of Indian textiles outside of India. This show follows the museum’s 2023 installation ‘Woven Wonders:… Read more »
In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Indian Cotton Textiles. Chintz from the 14th to the Early 20th Centuries in Karun Thakar Collection.
In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Symbols of Power by Louise W. Mackie, published in 2015.
In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of a rug and textile interest. This week we look at Tibetan Dress in Amdo and Kham, published in 2017.
Sonia Delaunay at the Tate Modern represents the artist’s considerable body of radical designs for fashion and textiles for interiors, alongside paintings that chart her practice from early figurative works to energetic 1960s abstracts.
The 17th-century Turkish tent on display at the Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, is the largest of its kind in Poland, and is one of the most valuable historical mementoes in the Wawel collection and indeed all of Europe.
