The exhibition Revealed Wefts will be held at the Moshe Tabibnia Gallery from 22 May to 12 October 2008, drawing a parallel with concurrent exhibition The Rediscovered Fragment, at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, which focuses on a 16th-century carpet that has recently been completed with a missing fragment donated to the Milanese museum.

The latter houses a remarkable collection of carpets, the catalogue of which has been reprinted thanks to the sponsoring provided by the Moshe Tabibnia Gallery, where the antique carpets displayed in the framework of the “Revealed Wefts” exhibition are ascribable to the 15th and 17th centuries and bear some analogy, in terms of dating and manufacture, with the items displayed at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum. The curators of the Revealed Wefts exhibition aim to shed light on the 16th and 17th-century carpet manufactures through the systematic display of some twenty historic carpets from different geographical areas, mainly Turkey, Persia, Egypt, India and China.

This particular exhibit stems from Moshe Tabibnia's wish to pave the way for synergies and collaboration with other cultural institutions based in Milan, so that antique textile arts may be rediscovered, shown and studied as cultural heritage. Hopefully, public and private organizations will work together in the future, at National and International level, with the purpose to preserve and display this precious heritage. 

The title of exhibition held at the Moshe Tabibnia Gallery, Revealed Wefts, alludes to the unveiling of connections between different carpet manufactures from past times, as well as to the disclosure of the progress made in the realization of the MATAM project, which will lead to the opening of the Museum of Antique Textile Art in Milan, in 2011.

In autumn 2008, in concomitance with the ongoing exhibition, a series of events, educational programmes and lectures, planned with the aim to shed light on antique textile arts, will be held at the Moshe Tabibnia Gallery.

Moreover, a press conference will be hosted to disclose the state of the art of the MATAM project.