FeatureFrieze 2019
Woven: a special section at Frieze London links traditional influences with contemporary textile art
Eight solo gallery presentations explore textiles, from knotted biomorphic hemp forms to Bauhaus-inspired geometric compositions in silk, cotton and paper at this year's fair
PreviewExhibitions
Woven conflicts: Hannah Ryggen's fascist-fighting tapestries go on show in Frankfurt
Textile-works showing Nazi prison camps and Mussolini with a spear through his head will feature in first German survey of Swedish artist
NewsMiddle East
Tate's huge 'Guernica of the Arab world' is recreated in tapestry so it can travel the world
Dia al-Azzawi's Sabra and Shatila Massacre has been commissioned by a Lebanese art foundation as an "archive of history"
NewsBauhaus
Art Institute of Chicago show traces the Bauhaus’s legacy in 20th-century textile art
The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”
NewsRestoration
A rich tapestry of English life unfurls in Oxford with restoration of 400-year-old woven maps
Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust
InterviewCheryl Pope
Cheryl Pope on love, representation and the comfort of textile art
The artist is showing a new series of wool roving nudes at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago
NewsHeritage
Long-lost Tudor tapestry could be saved for the UK
Work commissioned by Henry VIII for Hampton Court Palace left the country in the early 1970s
NewsPodcast
A monument to the Holocaust in textile: Anni Albers’s Six Prayers
On this week’s podcast, we hear about the solemn memorial at the heart of Tate Modern’s survey of the Bauhaus artist
FeatureAnni Albers
Paul Smith gets wrapped up in the work of the Bauhaus
After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer
FeatureAnni Albers
Weaving walls: how Anni Albers challenged Bauhaus prejudice
Founder Walter Gropius had limited expectations of the school’s “beautiful sex”, but one student quietly subverted them with a new category: the textile artist
NewsHeritage
Chunks of British Parliament go on sale
Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece
ArchiveExhibitions
Warhol "Marilyn" tapestry on show in Oxford for the first time since 1968
This will be the first call for a tapestry by the artist for the Andy Worhal Museum
ArchiveRichard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle: Weaving his magic around the world
Trio of Richard Tuttle exhibitions includes his largest work to date in the Tate’s Turbine Hall
ArchiveRichard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle: now’s the time to be-weave
Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery and Bowdoin are showing the textile artist’s works
ArchiveWilliam Morris
Books: William Morris and creating a social fabric
An indispensable book on Morris’s revolutionary cloth designs and techniques—and the political views that inspired them
ArchiveBooks
Books, Anna Jackson, Japanese country textiles
A visually rich if somewhat repetitive account
ArchiveDecorative arts
Invitation to a hanging
The story and study of the remarkable Toms Collection of tapestries
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Mystery over who made the “Francis Bacon” rugs
New research poses more questions than answers over possible attributions for items that were withdrawn from March sale
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Grayson Perry: The “The Guernica of the credit crunch”
Perry is about to show his most ambitious work, a huge tapestry depicting images of consumer excess and retribution
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Chuck Close on how his grandma’s crochet inspired his artistic vision
On the eve of a show at PaceWildenstein in New York, the veteran US artist discusses the importance of the year he spent with his grandmother when he was eleven
ArchiveArt fairs
Did carpet dealers and collectors watch the soccer rather than go to the Hali fair?
"The World Cup effect"
ArchiveTextiles
Antique textiles: A boom from the loom as museum buying and new collectors hike prices
As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles
ArchiveUSA
Trade embargo on Iran partially lifted
The textile trade, especially in carpets, will improve but metalworks and manuscripts are still restricted
ArchiveArt market
Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art
Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention
ArchiveBooks
Museum and National Trust approaches to textile conservation
A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium