Spanish Silks
London: F. Lewis, 1965. 56 black and white. GWO 2590. Heritage of Woven Fabrics series. Includes 13th-16th century Islamic textiles from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Les soieries d'art depuis les origines jusqu'à nos jours [The Art of Silk from its Origins to the Present Day]
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1914. 1 color plate 100 black and white. French text. "A scholarly broad history of decorative silk textiles in Europe & the middle east, based on the collection of the Musée Historique des Tissus, Lyon, late antiquity - 19th century, organized chronologically, including sections on sericulture in...
Decorations and Designs of Silken Masterpieces, Ancient and Modern: Original Specimens in Colours Belonging to the Textile Historical Museum of Lyon
New York: French & European Pub. (1930?). 56 tipped-in color plates. Museum collection of 22 Coptic/Byzantine silks, 15 Persian, 9 Asia Minor, 5 Hispano-Moresque, 2 Islamic silks, 78 European silks. Previously published as: Le décor des soieries d'art anciennes et modernes (Paris: Nilsson, 1929?). [GWO 2431, SORB TG-119].
Arts of the Eurasian Steppelands, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia No. 7
London: University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978. 129 black and white. A colloquy held 27-29 June 1977, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies. Scholarly articles including those on Chinese chariots, animal...
La Seta: Antica Tradizione Cinese (Silk: An Ancient Chinese Tradition)
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1980. 24 tipped-in color plates 12 black and white. Sumptuous publication of old Chinese paintings showing the various stages of silkmaking. "The ancient and traditional Chinese art of raising silkworms and producing silk is illustrated in this book with exquisite full-colour miniatures, executed in the eighteenth...
Decorative Silks
New York: Helburn, 1922 (1936). 10 color plates 541 black and white. Third edition.
Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei
Berlin: Wasmuth, 1913. 613 ill. in text and on plates, which include 10 chromolithographs. Standard reference work on historical silk textiles. German text. Examples are mainly from European museums. Two volumes. Volume 1: xlii, 128 pp., [43] plates; Volume 2: 147 pp., [88] plates.
Imperial Carpets From Peking
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1973. 7 color plates, 9 black and white. University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh exhibition catalog of silk and metal thread Chinese rugs. [GWO 1716, SORB CET-92].
The journal of Indian art and industry. Vol. XIII, no. 108.: The silk industries of India and the personal history of Sir Thomas Wardle by Colonel T.H. Hendley...
London: W. Griggs and Sons, 1909. 14 collotype plates (5 in color). The silk industries of India and the personal history of Sir Thomas Wardle / by Colonel T.H. Hendley - Memoir of the late Sir Thomas Wardle and the formation of the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland...
The John W. Campbell Collection of Oriental Silk Rugs
New York: John W. Campbell, 1925. 24 black and white. GWO 582. Privately printed catalog of a collection of mostly Persian with some Turkish silk carpets from the late 19th century. 106 rugs are described. [OB 582, CSROT 189, SORB G-738].
A Taste for the Exotic: Foreign Influences on Early Eighteenth-Century Silk Designs
Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2007. 127 illustrations, mostly in color. Riggisberger Berichte, Band 14. "Fascination with foreign modes of expression is a long-standing theme in European art and culture. By the early eighteenth century influences from the Near and Far East were generally filtered through the European canon before finding their place...
Catalogue of Early Medieval Woven Fabrics
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1925. 24 black and white. 34 examples shown of mostly Byzantine textiles.
Symbolic and Decorative Motifs of Korean Silk: 1875-1975
Seoul: IL JI SA Publishing, 1988. 21 color plates 211 black and white. Includes 43 black and white figures showing 122 motifs. "The major objective of this study has been to investigate the changes in design of Korean woven silk textiles for dress woven between 1875 and 1975, a period...
La Seta Nell'Arte / Silk in Art
Como: Banca Amadeo, 1980. 165 color plates 44 black and white. Comprehensive and well illustrated book on Italian silks from the Roman to contemporary eras. Italian text with English abstract laid in.
Oriental Silk Carpets from the Private Collection of a European Gentleman
Geneva: Sotheby's, 1983. 45 color plates. Auction catalog of Persian silk rugs.
Silk, Carpets and the Silk Road
Tokyo: NHK Culture Center, 1988. 61 color plates. GWO 1061. Silk rug and textile exhibition catalog of largely Central Asian public, private and dealer collections. [CSROT t2877].
Silk: Treasures from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
Doha: Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, 2004. 50 color plates. Collection of 13th-18th century silk textiles, velvets, and a 14th-15th century silk carpet in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar in Doha. "Highlights of the collection and this publication include a group of panels brocaded with gold...
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Soies de paradis - Tapis et textiles d'Orient du Musée des Tissus de Lyon [Silks of Paradise]
Paris: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2009. 52 color plates. The collection of oriental carpets and textiles from the Textile Museum, Lyon was formed mainly in the late nineteenth century.Some pieces are extremely rare, they were made largely in Safavid, Ottoman and Mughal royal workshops. Silks of Paradise presents a selection of these...
Ciba Review #11 The Early History of Silk
Basle: Ciba Limited, 1938. Black and White Illustrations.
Oriental Silks in Medieval Europe
Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2016. 227 illustrations, most in color. This volume assembles the papers presented during a colloquium held at the Abegg-Stiftung in 2011. It is dedicated to elaborately patterned, often gold-enriched silks from the Middle East, Central Asia or China that can be found in European church treasuries and museum...
When Silk was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. 113 color plates 76 black and white. Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalog of 8th to 15th century silk textiles.
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