Textiles

Specialist dealer sells items from his collection in two-day auction as he heads towards semi-retirement

A diminutive but rare mid-17th century needlework picture sold for £11,000 in Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest Fashion, Costume and Textiles Sale.

The New Orphan Houses in the Ashley Down district in the north of Bristol were once the largest orphanages in the UK.

Extensive contents of Cumbrian castle take three days to sell in North Yorkshire auction

When north German pastor Johannes Jacobsen founded a school of weaving in the then German-Danish border town of Scherrebek in 1896, his intention was driven by nationalism.

American decorators and buyers were in abundance on the first day of the winter edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park this week.

Launched in 2009, the annual 'London Antique & Vintage Textile Fair' run by the Textile Society will welcome 60-plus dealers to Chelsea Old Town Hall on Sunday, October 12, where the room will be crammed with textiles from the sedate 18th century to the swinging 1960s.

A fine Indian Kashmir shawl of intricate traditional design offered in Colchester included a sewn label 'Horatia E Erskine, June 26th 1861 (Indian) from H.M. Queen Victoria'.

Textiles from the nomadic Tekke tribe of Turkestan were highly sought after at Rippon Boswell’s (25% buyer’s premium) May 31 auction in Wiesbaden.

An extensive needlework collection built up over 40 years by dealer Lanto Synge has been donated to Ulster Museum in Belfast.

French silk and wool Coriolanus scenes go well over predictions in US auction

When a c.1890 May Morris for Morris & Co embroidery came up for sale at Toomey & Co (27% buyer’s premium), the timing was less than perfect for the midwestern lady who was destined to become its new owner.

Here we focus on three events this summer of interest to textiles enthusiasts

A notable collection of textiles from English aristocrat and society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) attracted considerable interest at Dominic Winter (22% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester.

A diminutive Quaker pin cushion made to raise funds for a pioneering mental health hospital in York has sold for a remarkable sum at Woolley & Wallis.

Collection amassed by Christie’s veteran Hugo Morley-Fletcher includes ‘special group’ of porcelain

Choice examples of British embroidery crossed the block at Brunk Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) in Asheville, North Carolina.

A mid-19th century papier-mâché globe sewing table from Birmingham, part of the legacy of a South American collector, has found its way to Heidelberg, where it is being sold by Metz on March 21-22.

A recent Fine & Decorative sale at Roseberys (26/25% buyer’s premium) was led by a very fine Berlin tapestry.