![]() ![]() About 20 percent of the items featured – dealers could post up to 30 items – sold for a total of about $66,000. As a result, the online version hosted 36 dealers and was visited by 5,300 people. An online version does away with spatial constrictions and geographic parameters. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center – the show’s traditional venue – can typically house about two dozen exhibitors and usually welcomes a few hundred visitors, most from within a short drive of Pennsburg. The antique show and program series pivoted to a virtual event because of the pandemic and, in doing so, the event grew in ways it might not otherwise have done had it continued as another live show. That was the case June 4-6, when, for the eighth time in nine years, the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center benefited from the Penn Dry Goods Market (PDGM). – Take a comparatively small show with a relatively narrow focus, add in a global pandemic and watch change happen. Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Exhibitors On the left, a hand-woven and embroidered Kashmir shawl from India, on the right a Japanese stencil-resist indigo. A detail photo of two textiles with Martin Platt, Xanthus Antiques.
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