A major exhibition of work by one of the world’s foremost textile artists Sheila Hicks is now on at the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
Sheila Hicks: Off Grid
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Tufted Arts: Tim Eads
King of tufting and founder of Tuft the World, Tim Eads talks to Lucy Upward about his discovery of tufting and the craft’s meteoric rise in popularity during the pandemic
Editor’s Picks: April 2022
Every month COVER Editor Lucy Upward will select highlights from the latest rugs on the market to appear on the COVER website.
Making Nuno
Travelling exhibition ‘Making NUNO – Japanese Textile Innovation from Sudō Reiko’ is now on at the Textilmuseum St. Gallen
COVER 66
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
Seeing with your feet
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.
Retreat with textiles
Marcella Echavaria takes us on a journey to the island of Mallorca, where Jaume Danús and Antoni Esteva have created a hotel spa with a creative and ecological difference
Christopher Farr brings Bauhaus and a mythical maze to Forza Tappeti
Woven in linen and cotton Red Meander was designed by Anni Albers, famed alumnus of the Bauhaus in Germany and founding faculty member at the legendary Black Mountain College in North Carolina. It was she who can be credited with developing and disseminating a...