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World Textiles Bazaar Weekend Edinburgh, November 9th and 10th 2024
Textile date for your diary
Saturday 9 November 2024, 10 am – 5 pm 
and
Sunday 10 November 2024, 12 pm – 4 pm
World Textiles Bazaar weekend here at The Nomads Tent
Contemporary and vintage textiles from around the world

 

FREE entry to a full-on weekend devoted to rugs, kilims, textiles, decor, artefacts and jewellery.

SUSAN BRISCOE | AFRICAN VINTAGE | JIM AND DIANE GAFFNEY | GAVIN STRACHAN

Susan Briscoe – expert in Japanese kimono and textiles - will show Japanese textiles, sashiko, yarns and crafts packs. Susan has a well earned huge following through her teaching, craft instruction and TV channel.

Magie Relph and Bob Irwin present African Vintage. They visited 34 countries in Africa establishing strong friendships with crafts people along the way. Their collection is a riot of colour, glowing with the warmth of that great continent.

Seasoned traveller and textile collector, Jim Gaffney, will present a few very special pieces from his Textile Treasures – collected over 40 years of travel across Asia.
Gavin Strachan, will show special pieces from his collection of Textiles of Eastern Europe, Turkey and Scandinavia. Gavin is editor of the prestigious internationally acclaimed Oxford Asian Textile Group.

Talk: 

Textiles of the Balkans
by special guest speaker: Gavin Strachan


Gavin Strachan, collector of textiles from eastern Europe, Turkey and Scandinavia is editor of the world class Oxford Asian Textile group journal and we are thrilled he has agreed to be our Sunday speaker for this year's World Textiles Weekend. Don’t miss it!. Gavin will also bring a variety of Balkan textiles from his personal collection, adding Eastern Europe to The Nomads Tent’s global portfolio.
Booking essential. Tickets are £5.

Book talk tickets here.