Aleppo: from World City to Civil War An illustrated Zoom talk by Philip Mansel with previously unpublished images.Thursday 6th May 2021, 6pm via Zoom. After booking, event attendees will receive a code for an exclusive 30% off Philip Mansel's book...

Lakai suzani, silk embroidery on red cotton ground, with silk velvet border. The Lakai Uzbeks moved from Central Asia in the north and settled in the Kunduz area of northern Afghanistan, after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. (from TRC Leiden)....

Lakai embroidered tent hanging, c 1950. Perhaps to be draped over a not so pretty pile of bedding or boxes, or hung, diagonally, to decorate a space. We are unsure of the significance of the two holes. The spacing perhaps...

Gujarat skirt, 92cms long, waist 62 cms Brightly coloured embroidered skirt from Gujarat. The embroidery is silk and cotton with inlaid ‘mirror work’ on hand woven cotton ground. We think made circa 1960s for quite a slim person!

Good quality weaving with all natural dyes from the late great Jagdish Banga, weaver of some of the best kilim production in India in recent decades. The design has a Caucasian influence. Note the gentle ‘abrash’, the subtle changes of...

Cicim, Anatolia This very fine, dramatically coloured antique cicim (pronounced jijim) is from İçel province, (now Mersin) in Southern Anatolia. It was woven in the late 19th century. 3 parts are joined together. Materials are wool ground with and silk...

Lakai suzani, silk embroidery on fine satin silk The Lakai Uzbeks moved from Central Asia in the north and settled in the Kunduz area of northern Afghanistan, after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. (from TRC Leiden). The arch shaped design...

Lakai suzani, silk embroidery on green cotton ground. The Lakai Uzbeks moved from Central Asia in the north and settled in the Kunduz area of northern Afghanistan, after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. (from TRC Leiden). This brightly coloured textile...

Silk embroidered silk sari from NW India, Bengali weavers. This very fine, (and amazingly also hand woven) silk material is economically and subtly decorated with expensive silk yarn. Note the least seen part of the sari has little decoration.  Size:...

SW Iranian kilim woven with thick, soft yarn, c 1960. The technique of kilim weaving necessarily addresses how to join 2 colours in the vertical axis. In this case note the interlocked method, in which each colour meets on the...

Fine new production, in traditional style, of a great and ancient craft. This large suzani s designed as a bed cover or a wall hanging. The embroidery is silk on cotton. There are finer and, of course, priceless, examples in...

A very pretty, elegantly proportioned hand woven kilim from Şarköy (pronounced Sharkoy), in Thrace, NW Turkey. The principal motif in this kilim is a stylised shrub or tree motif, perhaps related to, and certainly similar to the ‘boteh’ found in...