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]. More about Decorations and Designs of Silken Masterpieces, Ancient and Modern: Original Specimens in Colours...

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... More about La Seta: Antica Tradizione Cinese (Silk: An Ancient Chinese Tradition

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. More about Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei

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... More about The journal of Indian art and industry. Vol. XIII, no. 108.: The silk industries of India and the...

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... More about A Taste for the Exotic: Foreign Influences on Early Eighteenth-Century Silk Designs

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... More about Symbolic and Decorative Motifs of Korean Silk: 1875-1975

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]. More about Silk, Carpets and the Silk Road

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... More about Soies de paradis - Tapis et textiles d'Orient du Musée des Tissus de Lyon [Silks of Paradise

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... More about Oriental Silks in Medieval Europe