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.
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Triumph of Mark Antony tapestry crowns Whitfield collection sale
16 March 2020One of the highlights of a busy week in the salerooms came at Dreweatts’ auction of the Sir William Whitfield (1920-2019) collection.
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Textile Society award supports restoration
09 March 2020While one of the Textile Society’s important functions is holding fairs, another is its annual awards and bursaries, including a professional development award.
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Royal towel emerges at Versailles auction
24 February 2020This damask towel measuring 3ft 5in x 2ft 5in (1m x 75cm) and decorated with wreaths of fleur de lys and a central bouquet of roses will feature in Osenat’s La Royauté à Versailles auction, to be held in Versailles on April 5.
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Designer’s textiles revived for the modern day
17 February 2020A UK-based design studio trio last year took over the UK licence to the archive of Florence Broadhurst, an Australian designer whose whirlwind life came to a tragic end in 1977.
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Rugs and carpets move on up at latest staging of London fair
10 February 2020The latest staging of The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair was marked by strong sales of carpets and fewer big-ticket sales, according to organiser and exhibitor Aaron Nejad.
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London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair saddles up for the 10th time
13 January 2020The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year on the mezzanine of the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park.
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Pick of the week: Embroidery panels point to six figures
06 January 2020A sale of art and antiques from a Worcestershire manor house included the rare appearance at auction of two examples of Opus Anglicanum.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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