Carpets, Rugs & Textiles Books

Features colour photographs of over 300 vintage museum-quality quilts, created mainly between 1850 and 1960, that teach readers about styles and quilting traditions, including chintz and reverse applique, Irish chain designs and patriotic themes.

Charting shoe fashion from tight-laced Edwardian boots to the eccentric designer classics, with full-colour photography, this collection intends to appeals to the princess in every woman. It focuses on the major designers, their influences and their most famous clients on celebrities and their shoes including Elton John and Naomi Campbell.

Explores one of the ancient crafts of the world. Beginning with the discovery of the oldest complete rug, which has been dated to the fifth century BC, the reader is led through the weaving history of the nomadic peoples of Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Drawn from the Ashmolean's many collections, the examples displayed and described in this booklet illustrate the history of textiles and weaving through the centuries. The examples represent a range of fibrous media from many cultures.

Richard Parsons treats the reader to not only a veritable feast of carpets and rugs, but also to a fascinating journey through the history of a diverse, colourful, multi-racial country. He shares his respect and admiration for Afghanistan's stoical people, who somehow, despite political upheavals, forced resettlement, a harsh climate and often primitive nomadic living conditions, manage to ...

Covers pricing and history of affordable items sold at general stores, including Sears, Montgomery-Ward and expensive couture from leading designers such as Chanel and Dior. This guide helps you discover: clothes and accessories for men, women and children from the 1800s through to 1970; 1,200 colour photos to assist with identification; and more.

Turkish rugs have been a part of European culture since the 14th century. This book draws on the collection at Washington's Textile Museum, as well as from other museums and private collections, dealing with issues such as history, lineage, design origins and meaning.

Ranging through Persia, India, England, France and America, this volume includes the finest types of each carpet, from both museums and private collections. The text contains discussions of production, restoration and conservation, and of the origins of rugs and their techniques of manufacture.

This title tells the full story of the Kashmir shawl. The shawls are classified by stylistic period and an illustrated guide is included to show the chronological development of designs, which aim to help the collector to date their own shawls.

This volume, written by Murray Eiland, investigates one of the most thorny of collecting fields - antique oriental rugs. Rugs from Persia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, China and India are featured.

A wide ranging history of textiles, in particular the story of embroidery and needlework. The contents range from medieval vestments to domestic tapestries, with the characteristics of the baroque, rococo, neo-classical and other periods discussed. There are also chapters on oriental textiles.

The distinctive rugs made by many peoples of tribal origin in Asia, the Americas and North Africa have become widely sought-after for their decorative and functional role in enlivening today's interiors. This comprehensive guide contains independent advice for the buyer.

As manufactured goods became more easily available, ladies developed crafts such as needlework, to occupy their increased leisure time. This book illustrates and describes over 200 items used by Victorian and Edwardian ladies in their needlecrafts. It includes needlecases, scissors, tape-measures, thread waxers, pincushions and thimble.

Describes and illustrates different varieties of lace and the tools used in making it.

Spectacles have been used since the thirteenth century, at first by the few people who needed to read, such as churchmen and clerks. This book traces the development and use of eyeglasses from the fourteenth century onwards. It is illustrated with many colour photographs.

Featuring textiles from the personal collection of gallery owner Rudolf G Smend, historic photographs from the Hans van der Kamp Collection, and the text from academic Isa Fleischmann-Heck, this work is useful for collectors and lovers of the golden period of Java.