Antique textiles

Rose Brocade Classification Textile Arts Work Type textile Date 16th century Period Ottoman period Culture Turkish

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Uzbek Silk Wool Suzani Embroidery, Circa 1900

Embroiderers' Guild of Victoria

The chasuble’s exquisite symmetrical decoration highlights its central panel where three illusionary gold containers hold skillfully shaded fruit in pastel silk tones. Delicately curving motifs

Two Textile Fragments (nos. 30.112.42 and 2005.407)Western India has been supplying dyed and painted cotton textiles to the world since antiquity, as witnessed by the first-century Greek geography The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Leah O’Connell Design on Instagram: "So lovely...an 18th century painted silk fragment from The Smithsonian —— #interiordesign #classicdesign #interiors #design #charmintact #bringingprettyback #notaminimalist"

Antique Italian Textile, Mariano Fortuny Textile 17th Century Design Circa 1920 1871 - 1949 A.D

Christopher Moore on Instagram: “© Antique textile document from the archive. Late 18th century, block printed with beautiful picotage background. We are about to reprint…”

Coptic Tunic Fragment; late 3rd–5th century Egypt ;Linen,wool; plain weave, tapestry weave, brocaded.Textiles like this one are thought to have been produced by Copts (Christian Egyptians) and other weavers throughout the Byzantine Empire. The designs and motifs of Coptic and Byzantine textiles influenced the visual repertoire of the early Islamic period. This fragment was probably part of the shoulder decoration of a tunic, the quintessential garment of the Late Antique world

Textile with Birds, Leaves and Arabesques | Spanish or Italian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

J.D. Cornuaud. Design for a silk textile, French, c.1860. Pencil and watercolour.

INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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