Textiles
Textile design includes tapestries and quilts as well as smaller pieces of embroidery like samplers, conceived to demonstrate a variety of stitchwork.
This form has attracted modern artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Henry Moore but antique examples by both named and unnamed hands are also a popular collecting area.

Positive thoughts in the bleak Van Diemen’s Land
02 December 2019This rare sampler, just 6in (15cm) across, was completed by a girl from the Queens Orphan School in Van Diemen’s Land (the island of Tasmania) in 1838.

Thirty dealers in attendance at London's specialist textiles and tribal art event
04 November 2019Thirty of the top textiles and tribal art dealers will be exhibiting at the 'London Antique Textiles & Tribal Art Fair' at the Hilton Olympia in Kensington High Street on Sunday, November 10.

The web shop window: Caucasian runner from Legge Antique Carpets
28 October 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

5 Questions with Meg Andrews
07 October 2019Meg Andrews deals in antique dress and textiles and is a consultant to the Heritage Lottery and museums. She promotes textiles as hangings for interiors.

Pick of the week: Museum wraps up sale of coveted coverlet
09 September 2019The National Museums of Scotland has been revealed as the buyer of the Storrar Coverlet – a rare woollen textile withdrawn at the 11th hour from a sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh in August.

Textile Society supports talented student
09 September 2019The Textile Society has run antique and vintage textiles fairs in Manchester for the past 20 years with its annual London event launching in 2009. Proceeds from these 40-plus standholder events help to fund the society’s awards and bursaries.

Contents of grand Cotswolds home create auction result right at the top of expectations
12 August 2019Private buying dominated as Essex saleroom Sworders (23% buyer’s premium) offered the selected contents of a Cotswold manor house.

Metalware provides a wide price range for buyers to ponder
05 August 2019Metalware in all its forms played a major part in the development of the Bauhaus and recent sales contained examples in every price range.

Textiles testament to the past on show from dealer's collection
05 August 2019Patchworks stitched together by successive generations in poor Japanese communities offered in Kensington exhibition

Carpet flies at first rug and textile event
22 July 2019A north-west Persian carpet in the Esfahan style c.1700, offered for a price in excess of €30,000 by Massoud Milani from Paris, was one of the leading sales at the first HALI Fair in London’s Mall Galleries.

Rug and textile show debut
24 June 2019A festival of rugs and textiles organised by HALI magazine joins the busy line-up of London events this summer.

Vintage rugs brought from Belgium to Bath fair
13 May 2019Barry Fletcher specialises in vintage rugs and comes over regularly from Belgium to stand at the 50-dealer monthly Bath Vintage & Antiques Market.

A superb selection of sentimental samplers
25 March 2019Among the most desirable of all needlework samplers are those associated with pupils at the Ackworth School, founded as a co-educational boarding school in 1779 by the Quaker physician John Fothergill and still thriving today.

PREVIEW: Vienna – Dorotheum
25 March 2019Almost 140 carpets and weaves which illustrate the differing designs of the individual tribes that make up the people of Turkmenistan are to be offered by Dorotheum in Vienna on April 9.

Pick of the week: Quilt from a life of cold comfort sells to Bowes Museum at Tennants' auction
04 March 2019The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle was among the buyers when Tennants sold 13 quilts that belonged to Durham hill farmer Hannah Hauxwell (1926-2018) on February 9.

Specialist fan dealer is among exhibitors at Antique and Vintage Textiles Fair
04 March 2019Among the 70-plus exhibitors attending the Textile Society’s annual Antique and Vintage Textiles Fair at the Armitage Centre in Manchester on Sunday, April 14, is fan specialist Mary Cooper.

Gallery says that contemporary textiles at Frieze show a growing demand
04 February 2019Textiles represent a wide and varied collecting field, a huge range of which is displayed in the show 'Material: Textile' at Messums Wiltshire, from practical pieces to intricately conceived works of art.

5 Questions: Aaron Nejad
21 January 2019Aaron Nejad trades in rugs, carpets and textiles from the East and Europe. In 2011 he launched the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) which takes place in Battersea from January 22-27

Specialist textile fair running alongside popular south London event hosts 17 dealers
21 December 2018The 'London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair' (LARTA) is held alongside the 'Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair' at the beginning of the year.

Franses to stay in gallery home after Supreme Court ruling
10 December 2018Tapestry and textiles specialist Franses has won a landmark Supreme Court case against its landlord, allowing it to continue to operate from the London gallery that has been its home for more than 25 years.

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