Textiles

Peta Smyth has been dealing in antique textiles since 1976 and her shop at 42 Moreton Street in Pimlico, west London, is renowned for its extensive array of fine textiles, attracting a loyal and diverse clientele of interior designers, antiques dealers and collectors.

Lawrences of Crewkerne kicks off 2023 with an extensive £1m (premium-inclusive) series of sales over several days

Two new dealers join the latest London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) this month.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

More than 20 yards of Morris & Co fabric and two Howard & Son chairs were among a group of lots consigned to auction in Wiltshire with a provenance to Haselbech Hall, Northampton, and the Bower Ismay family.

Oxfordshire dealership Witney Antiques’ latest exhibition features early example of band samplers.

A rare early 16th century Flemish tapestry that was part of an impressive imperial commission is coming up for sale in France in early December.

The sale of Commemoratives, Fairings, Stevengraphs and Pot Lids at Historical & Collectable (24% buyer’s premium) included this rare pin cushion.

Tapestries featured at both Dreweatts’ Chilham Castle auction and Flaxley Abbey sale.

Three large images of a mother and child are repeated against a ground of animals, pomegranate and cypress trees on this rare Safavid silk velvet panel.

Glasgow School designer’s embroidered silk design instantly stood out in a box of fabric.

This 19th century Ottoman silver thread and black silk curtain is embroidered with the tugra of Sultan Mahmud II (1808-39).

Bonhams conducts a sale in New York on October 6 titled Wonders in Wallpaper.

This ‘microgauze’ woven linen and steel wall hanging by pioneering British weaver Peter Collingwood (1922- 2008) comes for sale courtesy of Prue Leith.

Salon Art + Design puts the emphasis on the eclectic nature of its offering, bringing together vintage, modern and contemporary design and setting it against 20th century art.

My wife Ida Marie Anna was born in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Paris, in 1941, eldest daughter to a Greco-Italian mother, Ivy Contarini, and a French father, Guy George Antoine Lapierre.

Massachusetts sale includes elaborate examples of early needlework from across the Atlantic

Mainland Chinese buyers bidding on jade, porcelain, wooden and textile offerings dominated the leader board at an Asian & Islamic sale at Cheltenham.

Just as the title reads, this album offered by Mellors & Kirk in Nottingham contains Specimens of Needle-Work Executed in the Female Model School, Kildare-Place, Dublin.