‎Diderot Denis, Jean d' Alembert‎
‎Art des textiles‎

‎Art Deco textiles. The French designers‎

‎London, Thames & Hudson 2003 256pp., with 316 illustrations (304 in colour), publisher's hardcover binding, illustrated dustwrapper, good condition, ISBN 0-500-51117-9, S96790‎

‎Art Deco textiles‎

‎London, V&A Publications 2003 144pp., with numerous colour illustrations, 30cm., illustrated softcover, good condition, S96822‎

‎Chinese Art (3). Textiles, Glass and Painting on Glass, Carvings in Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn, Carvings in Hardstones, Snuff Bottles, Inkcakes and Inkstones. Second Edition.‎

‎Oxford, Phaidon, 1981, in-4to, 243 p. with 214 ill., including 65 in colour, orig. clothbound with jacket. Fine copy.‎

‎Ottoman Silk Textiles of the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Hardback, 146 pages., 16 colour ill., ills., 297 x 210 mm. FINE ISBN 9782503511863.‎

‎The aim of this catalogue is to publish the 43 Ottoman textiles which are preserved in the Royal Museums of Art and History. Except two for which we are nor sure, these specimens were woven in the major metropolitan weaving centres of the Ottoman Empire namely Bursa, Istanbul and their environs. All date from the period between the late 15th to the early 19th century. Two types of weaves are represented. Firstly the velvets of which the collection counts 25 examples, one of them being an important catma, probably the earliest preserved in the world. Follow the kemha or lampas fabrics, of which we preserve 16 specimens, 6 of them bearing inscriptions, the others decorated with various patterns. The third main type of Ottoman weaves, the seraser or cloth of gold and silver, rare in Western collections, is not represented here. Finally, the collection contains two silks in a distinctive weave, an extended tabby, of which one is a military banner. Although these fall slightly out of the otherwise homogeneous group, they where not excluded from this study because certainly produced within the Ottoman realm. This publication puts on record a status quaestionis of the knowledge we gathered the last ten years on the account of this group of silks and to place it at the disposal of other museum curators and researchers. Since the scrutiny of the weaving technology and of the natural dye analyses can lead to a better understanding of the silk industry and offers at the same time concrete elements to delimit groups of textiles and of -who knows in the future- workshops or production centres, special focus is laid on these aspects. Languages: English.‎

‎Arrayed in Splendour. Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 264 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 111 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579658.‎

‎Summary Precious textiles, fabrics, embroideries, and tapestries played an important role in medieval and early modern cultures of representation. The high esteem in which the textile arts were held was not only due to the enormous material value of gold and silk, which had to be imported from distant regions, but also to the extremely complex and time-consuming production conditions which required a level of technical expertise that was present only in a few highly specialized centers. In stark contrast to their medieval and early-modern reception, it has been only in recent years that the traditional view of the textile arts in art-historical discourse as an 'applied' art, and therefore a 'low' one, has undergone a fundamental shift. The aim of this volume is to provide insight into the current state of research on the topic. Ranging from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays of leading scholars in the field offers an invaluable window into the complexity of the textile arts and their medium, from the overpowering splendour of liturgical and princely garments and the luxurious fabrics used for them in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to the visual world of monumental room decorations in the form of tapestries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Christoph Brachmann Clothing for a Marriage Made in Heaven: The Role of Textiles in Ecclesiastical Consecration Rites - Evelin Wetter Love and Resurrection: The Luxembourg Dynasty's Funeral Garments at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague - Christoph Brachmann All That Glitters: Cloth of Gold as a Vehicle for Display 1300-1550 - Lisa Monnas The Making of Appearances at the 1530 Augsburg Imperial Diet - Ulinka Rublack The Two Faces of Power: The Image Strategy of Cosimo I de' Medici - Roberta Orsi Landini Representatives of Power - Tapestries Made for Kings and Emperors - Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur Virtue and Vice: Clothing and Kingship at the Courts of Charles I and Charles II (1625-85) - Maria Hayward Arrayed in Splendour: An Africanist's Perspective - Victoria L. Rovine‎