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Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970: A Democratic Art, by Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain and Anne-Marie Stapleton, published by the Antique Collectors’ Club in association with the Fine Arts Society/Target Gallery. ISBN 1851494324 £19.95sb

EARLY needlework specialist Maureen Morris has been appointed to the Board of LAPADA. She joined the country’s largest dealers’ association in 1991 and is already a member of the advisory board of the Olympia Fine Art and Antique Fairs.

NEW YORK: EARLY sales at the exhibitions participating in New York’s Asia Week indicate that in this field at least business is very brisk indeed.

A NEW guide to exporting cultural goods, to be distributed with next week’s Antiques Trade Gazette, aims to cut through red tape for the trade.

May 2003 will see the largest migration of antique dealers in Toronto’s history as the 25-year lease on the city’s Harbourfront Antique Market ends and the market’s 50 dealers move to two new homes in the heart of the city’s tourist and entertainment district.

PORTOBELLO Antique Dealers Association are more confident of a positive outcome in the debate over licensing since meeting local council officers last week.

THE Antiques Trade Gazette has been named as Special Interest Newspaper of the Year in the 2003 Newspaper Awards.