{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Osterley House", "address": "Jersey Road, TW7 4RB Isleworth", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Walking Tour: Bhajan Hunjan’s studio visit and exploring public art in East London with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A guided walking tour that begins with an introduction to 'Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials' at the Nunnery Gallery and a visit to the artist's studio at P1, where participants can meet and speak with her about her use of materials such as silk-screen printed glass, laser-cut acrylic and metal, and stonework in public art. Artist and architect Kuda Mushangi then leads a walk to explore Hunjan's public art commissions in East London, created with local schools and communities in Tower Hamlets, including Three Mills Pontoon (2011) along the Lea Canal and Stroudley Walk (2026), celebrating the legacy of the Suffragettes in Bow. The walk considers how public space can hold multiple histories and how art can function as cultural memory, touching on East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, and themes of empire, displacement, resilience and cultural exchange. Participants are invited to share their own memories and reflections, and will gather at the Nunnery Gallery at 10.45am for an 11am start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-publi-35041/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-public-art-in-east-london-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7765bddff6be19007d3e05be8c6c571ca0183fe4d3b7802e43242547dff486e-2000.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": "https://www.flowgallery.co.uk/collections/shop", "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": "Meeting Mohini", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum and Gardens", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/queer"], "description": "Meeting Mohini is a free photographic display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, shown in the Balcony Gallery above the World Gallery. It presents work by Zoya Thomas Lobo, India's first transgender photojournalist, and is her first solo exhibition and her first outside India. The photographs look at Koovagam, where thousands of transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people gather each year in the Tamil month of Chithirai to reenact the story of Aravan, who was married for a night by Krishna in his form as the goddess Mohini. The images capture the joy of the wedding day, the sadness of the funeral ceremony, and life outside the festival in Mumbai, shining a light on one of the oldest recognised transgender and LGBTQI+ communities in the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meeting-mohini-50301/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/268fd55d28ef2dfb5aa4ca932d7a9dca815bc14b312d6a36f4d761a0c04b20ab-2000.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "UNHEMMED BOOK LAUNCH & MORE THAN A BUNDLE STORY EXHIBITION SHOWCASE", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-showcase-tickets-2002536317031?lid=0sdzs95i1xix", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/migration", "literature"], "description": "A one-night-only exhibition celebrating Turkish migration, heritage and community in London, alongside the launch of Emel Sevinç's debut novel 'Unhemmed'. The exhibition, 'More Than a Bundle Story', is an oral-history and cultural-heritage project curated by Emel Sevinç that preserves the experiences of Turkish-speaking migrants who arrived in Britain from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, many of whom worked in the capital's textile and clothing industry. Through photographs, recorded testimonies, personal memories and everyday objects, it explores migration, work, family, sacrifice, identity and belonging. The novel, set within London's Turkish garment industry, brings history and fiction together for one special evening, and everyone is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-sho-42961/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/unhemmed-book-launch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d92d2a1c48a1fd36cedd456504196889700b8dc14e3daa98ae5b111c6d7dac01-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Adeela Suleman: The Rising Crescendo of the Band Baja", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Grosvenor Gallery", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts", "history"], "description": "An exhibition of new works by the Pakistani artist Adeela Suleman, presented by Grosvenor Gallery in collaboration with Canvas Gallery, Karachi. It centres on the spectacle of the South Asian band baja, with drummers, trumpeters and uniformed bandsmen appearing amid forests, flowers and wild animals in celebratory, dreamlike scenes. Working in repoussé metalwork and textile, Suleman explores the layered histories of ceremonial bands and the tensions between pageantry and power, with a major textile work linking the independence movements of India and Ireland.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/adeela-suleman-the-rising-crescendo-of-the-band-baja-76625/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81c39b4c36579513c45c492fe5c02241aa7f713acecf49b86767ac3eed13a505-1200.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": "SCULPTING LIGHT", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flow Gallery", "address": "Needham Road 1-5, W11 2RP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.flowgallery.co.uk/collections/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "SCULPTING LIGHT is an exhibition by Celia Dowson and Yoriko Murayama at Flow Gallery. Murayama works with tied, unrefined silk that keeps a hard translucency while the scoured thread turns white and lustrous, creating a depth filled with light. Dowson's work has satin qualities that give it an artifactual feel, weathered and ground down over time, with material that feels like time, movement, landscape and light. The exhibition runs into January 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sculpting-light-36120/", "official_url": "https://www.flowgallery.co.uk/blogs/exhibitions/celia-dowson-yoriko-murayama", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a85ab7bbff4fe75d4e97e173ea92f5fadc9d53cb3ed86cf5d4b901e75534b12-2000.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": "Meeting Mohini", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum", "address": "London Road 100, SE23 3PQ London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/meeting-mohini", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "art/photography"], "description": "Meeting Mohini is a free photographic display at the Horniman Museum. It looks at Koovagam and spotlights Indian transgender culture through the lens of Zoya Thomas Lobo, India's first transgender photojournalist. Her images follow the ancient Hindu festival celebrating the marriage of the goddess Mohini to Aravan, which thousands of transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people gather each year to reenact. It is her first solo exhibition and first outside India, also centring her own experiences in Mumbai.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meeting-mohini-36549/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/268fd55d28ef2dfb5aa4ca932d7a9dca815bc14b312d6a36f4d761a0c04b20ab-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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "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": "Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Fashion and Textile Museum", "address": "Bermondsey Street 83, SE1 3XF London", "price": "£12.65 (Concessions may apply)", "price_from": "12.65", "price_to": "12.65", "tickets_url": "https://fashiontextilemuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/76301?catID=71515&", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "\"Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell\" is an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum exploring the life and work of the fashion designer Ossie Clark. His glamorous rock-and-roll designs, featuring distinctive prints by his collaborator and wife Celia Birtwell, made him an iconic and influential figure in 1960s and early 1970s London. Curated by Teresa Collenette and Dennis Nothdruft, it draws on a private collection covering Clark's career from early work to his later collections. Clark's skill in fit and form together with Birtwell's romantic prints inspired by the Ballet Russe and Art Deco created a legacy that still shapes style today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ossie-clark-celia-birtwell-36089/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/357cf24fc6405351210a5b01259bf755bd6d0d75d038bd2cf901e284e27e9498-2000.webp"}, {"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/shop", "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": "Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://serpentinegalleries.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "A major solo exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North Gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment. Over three decades, the New Delhi-based artist has created lyrical films and multi-video installations moving between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. Shaped by the history of the Indian subcontinent, his work investigates the legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, bearing witness to displacement, power, violence, justice and memory. Visitors encounter a trilogy of films, including Such a Morning (2017), The Peacock's Graveyard (2023) and the new seven-screen installation The Charcoal Man (2026), premiering at Serpentine, with the darkened galleries shown in very low light and moments of complete darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amar-kanwar-38472/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e75635bbf02f40fbbb179b67fd202dfbf16baebc7e3c4474606c179f6eedc66d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Diwali at the National Maritime Museum", "start": "2026-11-07T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.rmg.co.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=RMG&c=NMMADM&_ga=2.133473422.1846607018.1598255866-1436723164.1598255866", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/diwali", "community"], "description": "Diwali at the National Maritime Museum is a free public celebration of the Festival of Lights, part of this year's theme All Together Now, a joyful day of creativity, culture and community. Royal Museums Greenwich hosts it, with the programme curated by Mehala Ford, founder and curator of COMMONGROUND&, exploring the idea that we are stronger when we come together. Throughout the museum, artists, performers, musicians, makers and storytellers transform the galleries with creative workshops, live music and dance, storytelling, gallery and Diwali talks, a lantern parade and art installations. Highlights include the first-ever Diwali Bazaar of South Asian designers and makers, dance and music performances, a puppet show of the Ramayana, rangoli and lantern-making workshops, and food and drink.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/diwali-at-the-national-maritime-museum-39595/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/diwali", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e006bc66d3043fd79097e5f26631837bf7d37891f63a72e8c550ff089b3c7cdf-1200.webp"}]}