The intimate Museum Of the City Of New York has an ongoing exhibition called Gilded New York:

Inaugurating the Museum’s Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery, Gilded New York explores the city’s visual culture at the end of the 19th century, when its elite class flaunted their money as never before. In New York, this era  …

There will be a special lace event near Lille in France on June 6th and 7th 2015.

The subject for 2015 will be lace fans and the laces of Paraguay. (For more on laces of Paraguay see Kathy Maxwell’s article in the Winter 2013 edition of the FANS Bulletin).

There will be a competition to  …

On March 1st 2015 at the Textile Society’s Antique Textile Fair in Manchester, FCI Publicity Officer Mary Cooper has been asked to give a short presentation on Fans.
As visitors to this wonderful fair are collectors, museum curators, students of the Arts, college lecturers, and so many more, she is taking the opportunity to present  …

The first and only one in Russia; the new fan Museum is located at 73-75 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. This is a significant contribution to the Museums system in Russia. The revival of the tradition of private collecting, lost after 1917, and the desire of the collector to show the amazing exhibits formed the basis for the  …

2015 is upon us, and FCI members can look forward to new projects and developments which should shape our future.

May 2015 sees the 40th Anniversary of our Organisation. This is a tremendous achievement and an opportunity to thank our Founder Members for creating a group which as grown to encompass many countries and has  …