Rug news and antique rugs
Extract of media release from Persia Geneva: “Major Exhibition at Persia Geneva to open Friday 23 April 2004.. Entitled ‘A Revelation of Splendour – Persian Court Carpets from the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi’, the exhibition features the first-ever showing of some of the greatest masterpieces from the legendary private … read more
Artifacts of a Vanishing Style by Mike Tschebull An exhibition titled “Tribal Weavings of Southern Persia: Artifacts of a Vanishing Style” has been running at the Minasian Oriental Rug Gallery in Evanston, Illinois since early October, 2002. It will conclude at the end of March, 2003, when some of the … read more
Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Next to the Pazyryk carpet the most famous carpets in Oriental rug history are the Ardabil carpets. The Ardabil carpets are a pair of twins, weaved in Persia in the 16th. century. One of the carpets are exhibited in Victoria and … read more
Reinhard Blanck and Stefan Dobadka, ArtDokuments, have been collectors of Kyrgyz and Uzbek rugs and textiles the last 15 years. A major part of the collection are “Napramatsch“, tent bags with a knotted front. Reinhard Blanck and Stefan Dobadka now own more than 100 of them.
