Picasso, Dali, Miro and

Unrealised designs for Edinburgh by William Henry Playfair include Work by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro is to go on display at a former cotton mill complex in the heart of a world heritage site in Scotland.

A new art gallery due to open next year in the 18th century building at New Lanark will play host to a major exhibition charting the history of textiles in the 21st century.

Other artists to be featured in the show, which has been compiled by the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, include Raoul Dufy, Sonia Delaunay, Henry Moore, Fernand Léger, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Alexander Calder.

The touring exhibition, which will be in Scotland for the first time, will feature more than 200 rare pieces, including some drawn from the personal collection of fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.

The show, Artist Textiles - Picasso to Warhol, will be mounted in New Lanark between January and April next year following previous visits to London, the Netherlands, Canada and theus.

The gallery is being created at the heart of the herit-