Opening this week at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the exhibition Intertwingled: The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design explores the role of carpet and tapestry in different fields relating to art, craftsmanship and design.
Preparing us for Spring and Summer, this year’s Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House is full of joyful colour and tropical design. Lucy Upward takes a look at the rugs on show
In COVER 66 Lucy Upward looks at the trend for tufted homewares and art and speaks to four dedicated tufters about the joys of the craft. This extract from the article focuses on the work of New York-based textile designer and artist Caroline Kaufman
COVER 66, Spring 2022, is packed full of new rugs, new collections and new ideas to guide us through the year ahead. Here are some of the highlights
Chaccra’s new Solfeggio Frequency Tibetan Nire handwoven rug is part of a larger project to bring employment to the women of the remote village of Zeba on the Tibetan Plateau
COVER Editor Lucy Upward takes a look at which rugs will help us to give our homes a sense of grounding this year
The Turkish city of Ushak is in danger of severing its long-standing connections with the weaving industry for good. By opening an exemplary weaving workshop there, Kirkit Rugs is attempting to stem a complete decline. Rachel Meek talks to company owners Ahmet and Tovi Diler
The upcoming exhibition ‘Seeing with your feet – The Carpet in Contemporary Art’’ at the Museum Villa Rot in Burgrieden-Rot, Germany, will take a close look at the interpretation of traditional rug designs in contemporary art.
A black and white palette is always in style. COVER Editor Lucy Upward discovers monochrome highlights on show at COVER Curates