Fans & Finery

The Spring Fans and Finery auction features unusual needlework in the form of 18th c samplers, band and otherwise, and an exquisitely detailed pic...

19th century Ottoman embroidered textiles, mainly towels, with sashes and end panels: ten examples worked in silks and metal threads, some with ex...

World textiles: a shawl of printed cotton batik, a busy design to the centre with larger designs to the ends, Indonesia, approx. 259 cm by 107 cm;...

Ottoman textiles: four good embroidered items, comprising a fine towel, each end finished in metal thread lace, two borders with stylized designs ...

Antique Peruvian woven textiles, and fragments and three specialist books, (in German, but many illustrations); a small fragment, framed, possibly...

Indo-Persian textiles: a selection of good embroidered textiles from the 9th century and possibly earlier, comprising two end sections of a cream ...

Ottoman textiles, several incorporating gold-coloured metal strips: a square cloth or turban cover edged in hand-made silver metal thread lace, wi...

Vintage textiles: an Indian patchwork and embroidered cloth or cover, with Shisha/mirror work, worked in bands out from the embroidered centre, ba...

Antique Peruvian woven textiles: the first previously first sold as being Chancay, with two figures inside borders, approx. 22 cm by 17 cm, with a...