Oriental rug news and articles
The International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) and The Austrian Society for Textile-Art Research (TKF) have arranged a tour ‘Carpets and Collections of the Alpine Area’ in September 2019. ‘The tour is developing nicely and we will be able to offer five special exhibitions for this event’ says Peter Bichler, ICOC, to Jozan Magazine.
Iran Carpet Museum in Tehran, founded in 1976, has been celebrating it’s 40th anniversary 14 February 2018. A special exhibition of forty Safavid carpets has been a part of the celebration and Manouchehr Haghighat, a Tehran carpet dealer, has provided Jozan Magazine with photos and information from the event. Examples … Read more
Nomadic weavings on display at the MET The MET will show an exhibition ‘Nomadic Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg’ from 25 September 2017 through 7 May 2018. The location is The Met Fifth Avenue, The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Special Exhibitions Gallery, Floor 2, Gallery 458. The … Read more
Ikat textiles exhibition in Hong Kong Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery holds an ongoing exhibition of Indonesian ikat textiles from the Peter ten Hoopen collection. The exhibition is titled ‘Fibres of Life’. The exhibition opened 15 September 2017 and will run through 26 November 2017 The occasion is celebrated … Read more