Textiles of Asia
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Indian

Stock No 2674
Detail
Phulcari - dowery embroidery from the Punjab
North West India.
Silk floss on cotton
Early 20th cent
Measurements: 8ft x 4ft 2ins

     
     
Indonesia
Stock No 2643
Tapis (ceremonial skirt)
From Sumatra ,Indonesia
Woven in strips and fine ikat with mica
inserts and silk embroidery depicting stylized ships
Late 19th century
Measurements: 4ft 6ins by 3ft 10ins / I36cms x 117cms
     
     
Tibetan

An early wool pile Tiger Rug
Tibetan Circa 1880s
Measurements: 155cms x 84 cms
Formerly in the Mimi Lipton Collection
and Published in Tiger Rugs of Tibet by Mimi Lipton .
Thames and Hudson 1988 pg 79 plate 60

Exhibited at The Haywood Gallery - London 1989.

     
     
     
Tibetan
Tiger rug
Tibet
Wool pile
Heavy to handle
MiddIe 20th century
Found in Ladak
Measurements:93cms x 170cms
     
     
     
Indian
Phulcari
Abstract design in floss silk on cotton
c. 1930
Punjab, India
Dimensions: 8'2" x 4'5"
2m 49cm x 1m 35cm  
     
     
     
Indonesia
Ceremonial cloth
Orange Lawon
Handwoven silk
Late 19th century
Tritik process of resist dying
76inches x32 inches - 198cms x 81cms
     
     
     
Indian
Phulcari
Floss stitch on cotton
Punjab.India
Early 20th cent
Measurement: 9ftx 4ft 2ins 280cms x127
cms
 
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Indian
Phulcari
Floss stitch on cotton
Punjab.India
Early 20th cent
Measurement: 9ftx 4ft 2ins 280cms x127
cms
     
     
Indian
Phulcari
Floss stitch on cotton
Punjab.India
Early 20th cent
Measurement: 9ftx 4ft 2ins 280cms x127
cms
     
     
Japanese

Noh Robe (Awase kariginu)
Late Edo early Meji period
Circa 1830-40.
The colour of dried apricots
Silk Complex gauze with block printed cranes
And bamboo in olive green.
A very similar piece in Chicago Art Institute
Ass. No 1940 1102a and published in Five centuries of Japanese Kimono pub The Art Institute Chicago 1992 pg 56
     
     
     
India
Quilted Palampore
Mordant- Dyed and painted
Coromandel Coast
India
Late 18th century
Measurements: 9ft x 6ft 2ins
     
     
     
Turkish

Ottoman Calligraphic Tomb Panel
Silk Lampas
Turkish
17th century.

Similar piece in Topkapi Museum Istanbul
inv.no.13/1690

     
     
     
Persian
Persian Calligraphy
Silk complex weave {lampas / known in India and Persia as Kamhab}
Pinkish red and white
Late 17th early 18th century
"To God be the Victory"
Measurement 22"x15"
SOLD
     
     
     
Indian


Indian Calligraphic Brocade
Silk brocaded with gold thread
India circa 1800

     
     
     
Java

 

Ceremonial Calligraphic Batik
Cotton Wax Resist
Terracotta
Ceribon . Java
Pos. late 19th century
Designed with caligraphy, birds and Six Pointed Stars
Measurements: 27in x 66in; 69cm x 155cm

 
(detail)
 
     
     
     
Uzbekistan


Wall- hanging
Cotton warp, silk weft, ikat- dyed, woven and lined
Uzbekistan 1890
56" x 75", 142cm x 191cm
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