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This year Baku hosts the 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijan carpets; Traditions and Innovations, running from 17th-29th October 2017. Also along side this event the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum 22nd-24th May 2017, will host the 2nd International Symposium of the Common … Continue reading →

London’s Oriental Rug Centre has just received a new shipment of wonderful Persian Sultanabad carpets. They range in size from 3.50m x 2.50m right up to a magnificent 5.50m x 4.oom, and we have a very unusual piece which measures … Continue reading →

David J.Wilkins Oriental rug experts has received there first shipment of 2017, including a fine selection of old and new Persian rugs and carpets. Customers both old and new are invited to London’s Oriental Rug Centre to view the vast … Continue reading →

The London Telegraph has reported an astonishing find. Academic Ms Mary Beard stumbled upon a priceless set of King Henry VIII tapestries, there were being offered for sale in a Persian rug shop in New York. The large tapestries depict … Continue reading →

From all of us at David J.Wilkins Oriental rug experts we would like to wish all of our customers both past and present a very happy Christmas. We will be open at the Oriental rug centre London, right up to … Continue reading →

Domotex Asia, the leading flooring show in Asia Pacific, will take place in Shanghai, China on 23rd March 2017. It is the 19th edition of the fair, with more than 600 rug and carpet manufacturers from over 20 countries showcasing … Continue reading →

An unusual exhibition opens in Canada at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History in November 2016. It is the story of 50 years of collecting by two Americans living in Paris who started, quite by chance, with classical antiquity … Continue reading →

David J.Wilkins Oriental Rugs were once again please to supply Brynkinalt Hall with a very large carpet for this very impressive Tudor Hall, which has been the home of the Trevor family since it was built in 1612. The Autumn … Continue reading →

For nearly 30 years David J.Wilkins Oriental rugs has been supplying the proprietors of the Lawn, Rochford, the most sought after wedding venue in Essex. And once again we were pleased to be asked to supply some fine Persian carpets … Continue reading →

The Saint-Germain-des-Pres in Paris becomes an extended gallery from 6th-11th September ‘where the paths of the world cross’ for the 15th edition of Parcours des Mondes. Last year the premier tribal art fair broadened its scope to include Asian works … Continue reading →