Antiques Trade Gazette 77 fairs & markets Seamless transition of venue


Joan Porter reports


PART of the Textile Society’s remit is funding annual bursaries and awards for students studying within the area of textile and dress. Vision and viability are key. The awards, which include the


Lucienne Day Award, are part funded from the society’s annual textile fairs in Manchester and more recently London. The society launched its first antique


textile fair last September at Kensington Town Hall and this year it is moving down the road to Chelsea Town Hall on Saturday, October 2. Fully booked with 48 dealers, on


offer will be gloriously colourful textiles piled high and handsome above right, including Balkan embroideries and hats from Africa and India, as well as textiles from Russia, Turkey, China, Transylvania and across Europe. From Amsterdam, ex-costume


designer Frank Gardiner, who over 20 years bought costume from the opera, film and theatre productions he was working on, is bringing 18th and 19th century costume and textiles. French antique dress and textiles will


also adorn the stand of the French dealer Serge Liagre, a former ballet dancer and founder of Villa Rosemaine, a textile heritage study centre in Toulon. London textiles dealer Meg Andrews


will bring 1930s hand-blocked printed linen from Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, two of Britain’s leading art printers on textiles. www.textilesociety.org.uk


Come to the castle


THE 15th century Hampton Court Castle, near Leominster, bought by John Arkwright, son of inventor Richard Arkwright, in the early 19th century and remodelled by him, is the backdrop for Julie Brisbane’s antiques fairs. She holds these four times a year in a marquee at the castle entrance and on


September 25 will have 46 dealers standing, the largest yet. The fair comes recommended for its quality and variety, which include country,


decorative and traditional furniture, early ceramics, clocks and textiles. Tel: 07974 356128.


Following the thread after the shows


LONDON Fashion Week (September 16-21) sees the Louboutins clicking in shows beyond the catwalk events and parties across London. Lauded breathlessly by


Vogue as the “most exquisite vintage fashion fair”, Savitri Coleman’s regular 50-dealer vintage fashion fair at the Grade I-Listed Old Finsbury Town Hall in Clerkenwell, offers vintage to include Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood, two designers who helped to put British fashion at the top of its game. Savitri’s next fair is on Sunday, September 25.


ww.clerkenwellvintagefashionfair.co.uk Something for the weekend


TIME for a weekend break and if you’re up in East Anglia here are four fairs to check out.


n PLENTY of antique shops lure


visitors to Long Melford in Suffolk where Peter Smith has a two-day antiques and collectors’ fair at the Old School on September 24 and 25. Prices from 50p to


Shining the light on Brighton


NEARLY 500 artists applied to have their work selected for the 120-stand Brighton Art Fair in September; more than ever, says organiser Anne-Marie Shepherd. This well-regarded show pulls in a


wide variety of artists, many from across the arty South East, so visitors can expect textiles, sculpture, photography, ceramics, woodcuts, paintings and original prints. French artist Rose Dalban is likely to


win admirers at the fair for her powerful oils, which, Turner-like, explore the dramatic effects of light and colour on the landscape. Brighton Art Fair is at the Corn


Exchange from September 22-25. www.brightonartfair.co.uk


Left: Reflets du Soir (Evening Reflections) by Rose Dalban, a 3ft x 2ft 4in (92 x 73cm) oil on canvas, £2600 at the Brighton Art Fair.


£7000, he says. Tel: 07799 590459 n TO give an idea of its attractions,


Woodbridge was once described as full of Hobbity alehouses. Certainly, this lovely small town with


its weatherboarded mills on the River Debden quayside has plenty of antiquing possibilities and boasts the Woodbridge Antique Centre. David Sycamore runs a monthly antiques and collectors’ fair at the Community Hall with the next on September 25. Tel: 07909 623439. n MANY of the buildings in the


old wool town of Stamford were built from old Lincolnshire limestone, and its winding streets with fine 17th and 18th century townhouses are a hit with makers of costume dramas: Middlemarch and the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice were filmed here. n Field Dog Fairs hold regular and


popular antiques and collectors fairs in marquees on the Meadows, an area of land in the town beside the River Welland, where for 700 years a bull- running festival was held. There are 200 dealers expected at the fair this month, standing in marquees and outside pitches from September 23-25. www.fielddogfairs.co.uk n ALSO in Stamford, on September


24, PBFA have an antiquarian and out- of-print book fair at the Art Centre in St Mary’s Street. Tel: 01763 248400.


send fair s and mark ets information to joan porter at fairs@atgmedia.com


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