{"title": "Collections, including Antique Embroidery from the Collection of Ian and Barbara Kennedy-Martin", "start": "2026-11-03T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T10:00:00Z", "place": "Bonhams’ Knightsbridge", "address": "Montpelier Street, SW7 1HH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bonhams.com/login/?next=/auction/32332/collections-including-antique-embroidery-from-the-collection-of-ian-and-barbara-kennedy-martin-the-collection-of-the-late-pd-carter-and-the-personal-archive-of-peter-afia/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/textiles/embroidery", "history/antiques"], "description": "An online auction of collections including antique embroidery and vernacular furniture from the collection of Ian and Barbara Kennedy-Martin. The pieces were acquired over five decades through regular visits to trusted dealers including Andrew Jenkins, Mac Humble and Alistair Sampson, and sat alongside fine press books, Modern British and Irish art, antiquities and fine wines to form a richly layered, deeply personal home. Barbara was an avid embroiderer whose historic needlework, begun in the late 1970s, became the principal decoration of her private rooms, while Ian practised joinery and marquetry alongside his writing and painting, valuing carved and inlaid furniture for the skill and character of their makers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collections-including-antique-embroidery-from-the-collection-41046/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86cec06de79bf8c678f1e0d29f77f195bab8d4fa75a105fc9e0d55af9fbaafe6-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T10:00:00Z", "place": "Bonhams’ Knightsbridge", "address": "Montpelier Street, SW7 1HH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "LAUNCH: Four Essays on Embroidery by May Morris", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "Free (RSVP required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/launch-four-essays-on-embroidery-by-may-morris", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/textiles/embroidery", "literature/non-fiction/essay", "history"], "description": "A launch event and panel discussion for the book \"Four Essays on Embroidery\" by May Morris, published by Gauze Bonnet Press. The book gathers four of Morris's essays on embroidery as a craft, an art form and a political practice, examining its history, stitches and colour theory through her feminist and socialist outlook, with an introduction by art historian A.M. Dodds. The panel, chaired by Megan McInerney with panelists A.M. Dodds, Isabella Rosner and Kate Bugos, discusses May Morris's life and legacy, the history of embroidery, and women in the Arts and Crafts movement. Admission is free with an RSVP.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/launch-four-essays-on-embroidery-by-may-morris-69894/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/launch-four-essays-on-embroidery-by-may-morris/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e75f04a23bf934ebe0ea7b6074ff6727b27e0d9a66f242cbd5ceafb359d785c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "‘Journeys – Wedding Shawls, Baghs and Phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection'", "start": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Osterley House", "address": "Jersey Road, TW7 4RB Isleworth", "price": "Free event (admission applies)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "An exhibition of intricately embroidered wedding shawls, baghs and phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection, displayed at Osterley House. The textiles were made by young women in the undivided Punjab for ceremonial use and fill Robert Adam's neoclassical rooms with colour and craft. They bring new energy and cultural presence to a property with strong links to global craftsmanship, trade and Empire through the East India Company.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/journeys-wedding-shawls-baghs-and-phulkaris-from-the-karun-t-63701/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99e741e00595ed5791c21ad40d527a15586095b3a06c7a56cb740984a3edd970-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knit Wits Haus of SIBLING - An Archive Exhibition of SIBLING knitwear", "start": "2026-06-12T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T17:00:00Z", "place": "Kingston Museum", "address": "Wheatfield Way, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2PS", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "An exhibition of SIBLING knitwear shaped by the rituals of a Saturday night, showing rare garments from Kingston University's Fashion Archive publicly for the first time since the brand closed in 2017. SIBLING was founded by Joe Bates and developed with collaborators Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery, subverting knitwear's conventions with oversized silhouettes, clashing colours, graphic slogans and a deliberate embrace of the awkward and the joyful. The show is curated by Scarlett, J, Riya, Polina and Elisa, BA Fashion Promotion and Communication students at Kingston School of Art, part of Kingston University. Presented with The Community Brain, it invites audiences beyond the fashion industry to see garments as vibrant expressions of creativity, community and cultural resistance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knit-wits-haus-of-sibling-an-archive-exhibition-of-sibling-k-36789/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/768510283c2b02cf59d3370005aa7cb331eec913d4f718e23810939081a93bd9-600.webp"}, {"title": "Black History Month 2026: Bobbin ‘n’ Weavin – Mending Workshop", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Oxford House", "address": "Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/sewing", "society/identity"], "description": "Bobbin ‘n’ Weavin is a hands-on mending, patching and sewing workshop where guests bring their own garments to be repaired and adorned with cultural symbols, exploring heritage, identity and material culture. It is led by artist Martin King, who also offers alterations, and treats the mending as both a material and a cultural repair. Participants receive a reflective prompt beforehand and an encouraged reading list spanning works by authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Audre Lorde. Taking place on Halloween, the workshop invites thought on how we may mask or unmask our identities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/black-history-month-2026-bobbin-n-weavin-mending-workshop-41800/", "official_url": "https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/event/black-history-month-2026-bobbin-n-weavin-mending-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63f8977d09e2de904d1050e189a2120f200b42057b9c341a9ea3597ecfd66149-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MODERN MADE Auction Viewing - London", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lyon & Turnbull", "address": "Connaught Street 22, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "MODERN MADE Auction Viewing - London is a public viewing of works ahead of Lyon & Turnbull's upcoming MODERN MADE auction. The auctioneer presents twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and design, from sculptural furniture and works of art to studio ceramics, lighting, glass and finely crafted objects. The viewing also shows pieces from the Lalique and Travel & Vintage Posters auctions and highlights from the winter Scottish Paintings & Sculpture sale. It is open to all, with no appointment required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/modern-made-auction-viewing-london-41669/", "official_url": "https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/events/modern-made-viewing-london", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a4b4e84452986e773bcce1cf08fdc79946c2620663830a8561dbd241a14da1f4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "John Byrne: Blurred Boundaries", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Fine Art Society", "address": "New Bond Street 148, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of painted furniture by artist John Byrne, shown alongside a group of paintings, drawings and prints by him and by artists in his collection. Byrne follows a long tradition of artist-painted furniture, from folk art to the Bloomsbury group, decorating functional household objects. His recurring painted oak leaf adorns a mid-century cabinet, portraits appear of his companions Thistle the house rabbit and Misha the dog, and an autumnal tree sheds its leaves like confetti across wardrobe doors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-byrne-blurred-boundaries-39191/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dfd55dd2c7410c20249e8f938a5ea1246e860051120e38ca45ee49636fad3bc9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rhythms of Making – Iva Polachova & Lizzie Kimbley", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flow Gallery", "address": "Needham Road 1-5, W11 2RP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "\"Rhythms of Making\" is a winter exhibition at Flow Gallery exploring the rhythms of making in ceramics and weaving. Ceramicist Iva Polachova builds forms through repetitive hand-building techniques, marking her surfaces with her signature patchwork of parallel lines, and creates bowls, cups, jugs, decorative vessels and sculptural pieces. Weaver and textile artist Lizzie Kimbley makes wall-pieces inspired by daily walks in the marsh and meadows near her Norfolk home, working with woven textiles, natural dyes and basketry techniques. Her pieces combine reclaimed and re-imagined materials, including linen offcuts, handmade cordage, paper yarn and industry waste yarn, celebrating time spent in nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rhythms-of-making-iva-polachova-lizzie-kimbley-36129/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9555ef79f914b24d428f1611dddb61be4ef8441954c29feda80aadc2d3e38ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past", "start": "2026-11-06T09:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "history"], "description": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past is the Society of Antiquaries' annual Collections and Research Day, focusing this year on its Prints and Drawings collection of works on paper from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The event is hosted by the Society of Antiquaries and presents the work of early career researchers and collections professionals. It examines how images shape knowledge production and circulation, mediate encounters with lost and extant objects and buildings, and contribute to the study of the material past, from early modern prints to contemporary graphic practices. The keynote, 'Towers and Transformations: 40 years of printmaking by Anne Desmet RA', spans her career as artist-printmaker, and attendees can also visit curated displays at the library of either the Royal Academy of Arts or the Linnaean Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lines-of-enquiry-graphic-arts-and-the-afterlives-of-material-38657/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/lines-of-enquiry/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7db67b77575aa91c39629348415212837d9c42d8f7d5ace48bea44c9b8f4b718-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tapinlondon.com/event/regulars-14xxodp/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' is an exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery celebrating tapestry as a vibrant and evolving art form of the 21st century. Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, it brings together more than 20 artists, with works made through collaborations between Dovecot's master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Tania Kovats, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean, Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi, alongside major new commissions. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry's landmark return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years, it invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition-37555/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bd1f5acd97f097608e6c31cae9c62a91b0a88ccbe3f16bc28298c43ee73a56a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dame Rosalind Savill Memorial Lecture 2026", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.wallacecollection.org/event-tickets/80943", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history/france"], "description": "The Dame Rosalind Savill Memorial Lecture 2026 is an annual talk at the museum, held in its Theatre and broadcast live online via Zoom, followed by a drinks reception. This year's speaker is Wolf Burchard, Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the lecture 'The World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle: Piecing together Louis XIV's Grande Galerie Savonnerie carpets'. He tells how, in 1668, Louis XIV commissioned 92 enormous Savonnerie carpets for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, woven over 25 years and never laid out there; after the French Revolution many were stripped of royal emblems, segmented, sold and dispersed, and curators from the Mobilier national and The Met are now piecing them together. In February 2026 the Mobilier national showed 32 of these carpets together at the Grand Palais in Paris, and from September 2026 The Met will stage the first ever exhibition devoted to the Savonnerie in the United States. The lecture honours Dame Rosalind Savill, Director of the Wallace Collection from 1992 to 2011, who transformed the under-visited institution into a cultural landmark.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dame-rosalind-savill-memorial-lecture-2026-39905/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/dame-rosalind-savill-memorial-lecture-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c86e408329886372e483913eb56043a0a3b926a651387a36ad5078d550318ff-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Threads of Ascent: Tapestries by Clare Woods", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Garden Museum", "address": "", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry", "nature/plants"], "description": "An exhibition of three large-scale handwoven tapestries by Clare Woods, shown at the Garden Museum. The artist made them in collaboration with weavers at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, working from small watercolours of climbing weeds. Bindweed on a high-security fence, a passion fruit vine over a Los Angeles chain-link fence, and common vetch in an abandoned allotment turn overlooked plants into monumental woven landscapes. The free exhibition coincides with a new display of the museum's 17th-century Mortlake tapestry, celebrating 400 years of tapestry-making in the UK.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/threads-of-ascent-tapestries-by-clare-woods-36213/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d75e7571b886b3334ff291c07370fe0a4fbcacbf88d3a12e976411f8b96bd210-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Cabinets Unlocked, 17 Oct–1 Nov 2026", "start": "2026-10-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ham House", "address": "", "price": "Free event (admission applies)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts"], "description": "Cabinets Unlocked is a rare chance to see inside Ham House's highly decorative cabinets, which are opened just twice a year to protect their pristine interiors. Over twenty prized cabinets and writing desks will be opened and on display, along with strongboxes and miniature cabinets, coinciding with the conservation team's condition checks. The collection includes marquetry, lacquer and exquisite veneers from Japan, China, Holland and England, with highlights such as the Ivory Cabinet from around 1660 and the Marquetry Cabinet, one of the earliest recorded examples of floral marquetry in England. From 19 to 23 October, volunteer guides will also give short pop-up talks in the Long Gallery, subject to volunteer availability.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cabinets-unlocked-17-oct1-nov-2026-36376/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "R. B. Kitaj: From Fragments 1958–1975", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Piano Nobile", "address": "Portland Road 129", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages by R. B. Kitaj, tracing how the American-born artist worked from fragments in the first half of his career. It shows how he gathered source material such as film stills, old book illustrations and thumbnail images from art historical scholarship, and turned these into new images dense with juxtaposition and ambiguity. Spanning 1958 to 1975, it includes significant large-scale paintings and collages, some of which even incorporate torn-up reproductions of his own works. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication with new research into his bricolage technique.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/r-b-kitaj-from-fragments-19581975-37738/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4e15c07b850a14f3d925eb1c70a086a58b4f7f2e25bb1ada683ffe44ae55705c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Collection in Focus: Furniture", "start": "2026-10-31T11:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "A themed guided tour at the museum focusing on the furniture collection, taking visitors through highlights across the galleries in the Front State Room. Speaker Denise Stone leads the tour, which explores the artistry, craftsmanship, and innovation behind pieces from elegant tables and cabinets to richly decorated furnishings created for Europe's most prestigious interiors. Places are limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collection-in-focus-furniture-39901/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/collection-in-focus-furniture-13/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1545ea1c70943f50445fd8e1eadc6707856656c02416da055058daa3c7114b83-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sashiko sessions with B_Boheme", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Chiswick House", "address": "", "price": "From £45", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bboheme.com/workshops/p/chiswickhouse", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/textiles/embroidery"], "description": "A relaxed, beginner-friendly two-hour workshop introducing the Japanese art of sashiko stitching, where participants use reclaimed denim to create their own stitched piece to take home. The sessions are led by Alicia Lai, founder of B_Boheme, and teach the foundations of the stitching tradition, from transferring a pattern to working its distinctive running stitches. No sewing experience is needed, all materials and equipment are provided, and returning stitchers can bring a garment or textile to mend and embellish. The session offers a chance to step away from everyday busyness, enjoy making by hand and connect with others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sashiko-sessions-with-b_boheme-78583/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2207581373f4093c377b0a021b0d6690450d6b7abdfc9d73bf1a6685b1dbde72-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Curator Tour – Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Free. Booking required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://guildhall-art-gallery.myshopify.com/products/tapestry-now-exhibition-tour-with-gallerys-curator", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' at Guildhall Art Gallery. The gallery's curator guides visitors through works by over 20 major British artists transformed into tapestry by Dovecot's expert weavers. The tour explores how art and craft intersect and how the heritage of tapestry has become a thriving contemporary medium, with expert commentary and the chance to ask questions. The tour lasts approximately one hour, is designed for adults with accompanied children welcome (suggested minimum age 8), and places are deliberately limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/curator-tour-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-37605/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2efddba802b65606caa30901b5b082ca1db04fa0fd5f7d7f9aefface1933516-1200.webp"}]}