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New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS

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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
in the middle: Silk Mamluk carpet, Cairo, 1st quarter 16th c.
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS, in the front: Silk Mamluk carpet

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
in the front: Silk Mamluk carpet, Cairo, 1st quarter 16th c.
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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Display cases in the Textiles and Carpets Collection featuring various objects

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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Exhibition view Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets with Mamluk carpet

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
in the middle: Mamluk carpet, 1st half 16th c.
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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Open drawers in the Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets with fabric swatches

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
from left to right: Doily with geometric embroidery, 17th–18th c.; Embroidery pattern, “Ladies’ Carpet,” 1847
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
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Display case with a dress made of carpet

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
Christoph Rumpf, Look from the spring/summer collection 2020, 2018
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Decorative piece with centaur and lion in a medallion, surrounded by animals in an octagonal star

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
detail: Decorative piece with centaur and lion in a medallion, surrounded by animals in an octagonal star, 5th–6th c.
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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Detail of the “cashmere shawl” depicting the Nauruz festival

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
detail: Amédée Couder, “cashmere shawl” depicting the Nauruz festival, 1839
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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Detail of the so-called “silk Mamluk carpet"

MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
detail: Silk Mamluk carpet, Cairo, 1st quarter 16th c.
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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MAK Permanent Collection Textiles and Carpets, 2026
New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS
Knitted jacket, prob. Italy, 1st half 17th c.
© Marco Cappelletti e Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio

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So-called “silk Mamluk carpet,” Cairo, 1st quarter 16th c. Warp and asymmetrical knots in silk, weft in wool
© Gerald Zugmann/MAK

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Hanging, polychrome silk textile with prayer niches, hanging lamps, and geometric motifs, prob. Tunis, 17th c.
Silk and metal threads, woven
© MAK/Christian Mendez

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“Tintoretto carpet”: Warp, weft, and symmetrical knots in wool

“Tintoretto carpet,” Ushak, ca. 1600
Warp, weft, and symmetrical knots in wool
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Çaprak (shabrack): Tapestry fabric with warp and weft in silk

Çaprak (shabrack), Istanbul, 2nd half 16th c.
Tapestry fabric with warp and weft in silk, metal threads, lined with woven cotton, wool braid trim, and leather-covered lead weights sewn onto the corners
© MAK/Branislav Djordjevic

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Millefleur niche carpet, warp and weft in silk, asymmetrical knots in pashmina wool

Millefleur niche carpet, North India, 18th c.
Warp and weft in silk, asymmetrical knots in pashmina wool;
© Gerald Zugmann/MAK

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Amédée Couder, “cashmere shawl” depicting the Nauruz festival, 1839 Execution: Jean Gaussen, Paris
Woven wool
© MAK/Christian Mendez

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Knitted jacket with pattern made of silk and metal threads

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Manufacture de la Savonnerie, Savonnerie carpet with floral still life, Paris, 3rd quarter 18th c. Wool warp, linen weft, symmetrical wool knots, woven edging
© MAK/Branislav Djordjevic

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Headboard from the state bed from Schloss Hof for Prince Eugene of Savoy, Coromandel Coast, India, ca. 1730
Painted and printed woven cotton fabric pieces embroidered and sewn with silk (appliqué embroidery), sewn-on passementeries, base fabric made of woven cotton with woven linen lining
© MAK/Georg Mayer

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Tapestry fragment depicting a banquet of “wild men” and the siege of a Castle of Love, Strasbourg,
c. 1420
Woven tapestry fabric, linen warp, wool weft, partly embroidered with silk and linen
© MAK/Georg Mayer

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Square ornament with a face in the center

Square decorative element (tabula) on tapestry-woven linen; face framed in vine leaves and grapes, Akhmim, Egypt, 4th–5th c.
Wool warp, linen and wool weft; tapestry-woven, sewn
© MAK

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Tapestry fragment with the Nailing to the Cross, Middle Rhine, ca. 1490 Wool weft, linen warp, tapestry-woven; faces embroidered.
© MAK/Kristina Wissik

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