antique tapestries
September 3, 2026
We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light […]
August 26, 2026
There is a particular authority that attaches to an object when one can trace its maker’s hand, teacher by teacher, back to a single revolutionary moment, […]
August 19, 2026
From the Rug & Kilim editorial and curatorial archive In April 1939, the SS Normandie docked in New York Harbor carrying, somewhere in her hold, a […]
June 23, 2026
There are artists who weave cloth and the ones who weave ideas. And then there are artists; rare, serious, working at a register that most practitioners […]
June 10, 2026
There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has stood inside a Jeni Ross installation, when the room stops being a room. Not because the work […]
June 8, 2026
There is a particular kind of looking that a great tapestry demands, slower than painting, more physical than sculpture, closer to reading than to seeing. The […]
June 1, 2026
The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on […]
May 29, 2026
From the Rug & Kilim editorial and curatorial archive Our founder and principal Jahanshah Josh Nazmiyal has been in the carpet industry long enough to have […]
May 4, 2026
In April 2016, three rugs arrived at Christie’s King Street in London that had not been seen in public for over a century. They had not […]
