Carpets of Distinction

Panel Cod R — The Stoddard-Tempelton Design Library, The Glasgow School of Art Library

About

An exhibition and a series of new commissions by John Byrne, Ruth Ewan, Nick Evans, Alasdair Gray, Nicolas Party, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan partnership with Dovecot Tapestry Studios and the Stoddard-Templeton Archive at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art.

Panel Cod E — Invitation, Photograph: Gordon Burniston

Exhibition

Exhibition Guide

7 November 2012 - 12 January 2013

Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh

Panel Cod F — Exhibition installation view, Photograph: Michael Wolchover

Panel Cod G — Exhibition installation view, Photograph: Michael Wolchover

Panel Cod H — Exhibition installation view, Photograph: Michael Wolchover

Panel Cod J — Exhibition installation view, Photograph: Michael Wolchover

Panel Cod K — Exhibition installation view (detail), Photograph: Michael Wolchover

Panel Cod I — Exhibition installation view (detail), Photograph: Michael Wolchover

Panel Cod C — Exhibition guide, Photograph: Gordon Burniston

Commissions

Carpets of Distinction Catalogue

Panel Cod L — 'Incomers and Outgoers', Alasdair Gray

Panel Cod M — 'Landscape', Nicolas Party

Panel Cod U — Rug in production, Photograph: Jonathan Cleaver

Panel Cod O — 'Fertility Rug', Nick Evans

Panel Cod P — 'Father of the Man', John Byrne

Panel Cod N — 'This rug has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric', Tatham/O'Sullivan

Panel Cod S — Rug in production, Photograph: Jonathan Cleaver

Panel Cod Q — 'Secrets of the Craft', Ruth Ewan

Partners

A partnership with Dovecot Tapestry Studio and the Stoddard-Templeton Archive at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art.

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