HALI 's 40th

David Sorgato with Salor Turkmen kejebe

Milani hangs his early Northwest Persian kelleh

Tunisian and Libyan weavings with Menzel Galerie Nordafrikaa

Lombardo and Partners, woven treasures from the Ottoman world

Owen Parry

Andy Lloyd

Gallery Aydin

Serkan Sari, kazak rug

Seref Ozen

textiles including silk velvet yastiks with Milani

Clive Rogers: Greek island embroidery and essoteric textile from Tibet

Gebhart Blazek

Amin Motamedi

A variety of gret textiles from greece to Indonesia with Joss Graham

fascinating textiles from Africa, India, Europe and Central Asia with Achdjian Gallery

Multiple Transylvanian prayer rugs with Lombardo and Partners (Antique)

Asian tigers: David Sorgato

Qashqai rug with Central Asian velvet ikat design: David Sorgato

Sauj Bulagh Kurd rug with Owen Parry

 Clive Roger's Tibetan khaden rug and Alberto Levi's Tiffany Carpet fragment

Serkan Sari

Amin Motamedi's booth

Sogdian Bulls

Central Asia, following Sasanian prototypes, 

probably 7th-8th century AD

Silk samite

Silver-gilt repoussé plaque depicting a mandarin duck in flight

Central Asia, 7th-9th century

Repousse silver-gilt

Rare needleloop embroidery with tree peonies

Chinese, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

Needleloop embroidery over pieces of gilded paper (now in worn condition) on yellow satin damask

Fragment consisting of pieces of three different polychrome silks sewn together, the largest with a design of paired deer within pearled roundels

Probably first half of the 7th century

A pair of embroidered boar's heads with pearled roundels, possibly embelishment to be tied to a garment or textile

Central Asia, probably mid 7th century (C14 results 635-723 AD); silk of Chinese origin

Silk chain stitch on a dark brown self-patterned silk in tabby- 1/3 twill weave

Part of a short coat in polychrome silk with a repeating design of rosettes and crosses, the design derived from late Sasanian silk costume

Central Asia, early 8th century (c. 700 AD); Chinese silk lining

Silk Samite weave

Polychrome silk border fragment depicting the legs and feet of a pheasant within a roundel, flanked either by a 'rainbow' arrangements of

appliqué folded strips of plain silk

Central Asia, late 8th or early 9th century,

Samite weave, plain silk of Chinese origin

Chinese winged dragons and Hellenistic vine stems

Central Asia (Xinjiang), 2nd-4th century AD

Silk embroidery, chain stitch on a red silk tabby ground

Woman opening the doors of a building

North China, Northern Wei dynasty, late 5th century

Silk chain stitch embroidery on damask

Square panel, perhaps a cover, with original lining and two ties

Western Central Asia, 14th century (C14 results: 1278-1412 AD)

Floss silk embroidery in long and short stain stitch on a warp-faced silk tabby weave ground, couched gilded animal membrane

Short jacket or shirt probably intended to be worn under an outer garment

Lightweight monochrome silk with applied panels of a thicker polychrome silk with a repeating design derived from contemporary Sasanian samites (such as

those found in Antinoe in Egypt) 

Western China or the Eastern Silk Road, second half of the 6th century AD

Patchwork silk panel with interlocking ingot design

Chinese, Ming dynasty, 14th century

Silk, silk damask, flat gold on paper, and silk embroidery

Small panel of embroidery with the eight Buddhist auspicious symbols of Good Fortune

Chinese, early Ming dynasty, 1368-1424

Polychrome silk floss in long and short stain stitch embroidered on a deep blue warp faced 3/1 twill weave, the warp yarn of animal hair and the weft of 

silk yarn. The gilded paper Z-wound around a colourless silk core is couched

Hanging or curtain

Morocco, Fez or Tetouan, early to mid-19th century

Two loom widths woven in silk lampas, some bands woven with metal thread (silver lamela wrapped around a silk core)

Long length of uncut cloth, possibly for temple or palace furnishings

South-east India, Coromandel Coast or Deccan, c. 1800

Cotton; block printed and mordant dyed

Large panel from a bedcover or hanging (palampore)

Coromandel Coast for the European (possibly Dutch) market

first half of the eighteenth century

Cotton, mordant-dyed and resist-dyed

Fragment of a canopy for a Hindu shrine

South east India

Choga (man's ceremonial coat)

Kashmir, c. 1855-75

Kashmir woven wool embroidered with silver-gilt wrapped thread; chain-stitch, couching

Vaishnavite silk from Assam (East India)

Scenes from the Bhagavata Purana and the Ramayana

Assam, 17th century

Silk lampas

Khandpaat

Deccan, 1800-1850

Cotton, painted with gold and pigments, including copper acetate arsenate

A) Pidan fragment with Buddhist imagery and inscription

Cambodia, late 19th or early 20th century

Silk; twill-woven weft faced ikat (hol)

B) Pidan depicting water festival motifs

Cambodia, late 19th or early 20th century

Silk; twill-woven weft faced ikat (hol)

Velvet with gold discs in offset rows

Mongol Persia, (Il-Khanid dynasty), possibly Tabriz, c. 1300 (C14 1299-1431 AD)

Brocaded velvet, silk and gold thread

A meeting of lovers in the dark

Folio from a Rasikapriya series

Mewar, c. 1660

Opaque pigments and gold on paper

Two pilgrims or guardian figures standing by a cyprus tree

South-east India, possibly Masulipatnam in coastal Deccan, mid 18th century

Cotton, drawn, mordant-dyed and resist-dyed, profusely highlighted in gold. Blue pigment added later

Moroccan yellow silk double-sided embroidery

Probably Sale or Meknes, first half of 20th century

Silk embroidery on satin, edge with silk passementerie; line stitch, drawn thread and long and short stitch

3 Tiga-ringgit songkok

Indonesia, Sulawesi, Buginese, c. 1900

Raffia palm leaf fibre, stained brown or left white, fine gold wire and flat gold lamella, basketry weave

Cover (bohcha)

Ottoman Turkey, with European influence, early 19th

Wool, silk chain stitch, silver and silver-gilt lamella couched over cotton

A boy's circumcision costume consisting of a jacket, short pantaloons, and a vest

Tunisia, Tunis, first half of 20th century

Silver lamella, silver sequins, silver thread, cotton, paper and synthetic satin