Textiles

The last antique rugs, carpets and textiles concession in a London department store closes this month.

The March 3-4 sale at Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, was topped by a good example of Qing imperial needlework: a yellow ground silk and metal thread cushion cover.

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.