Textiles

Amazing vintage Moroccan Caftan, green silk velvet with embroidered gold threads trim, Circa 1960's The dark green velvet kaftan has been hand-sewn and intricately embroidered with gold threads rim and was entirely embellished by hand adding beads and pearls to the front dress, to the sleeves but also to the back. One of a kind evening antique Moorish style vintage maxi dress. The Moroccan kaftan...

Amazing vintage Moroccan Caftan, gold silk damask gold threads trim. Circa 1960's The light gold damask kaftan was entirely finish by hand. One...

Pair of Japanese contemporary porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), hand painted in green and red on a beautiful egg shaped body with gold details. Each piece bears the mark of Kutani and the artist's signature on the reverse side. Traditional Japanese rooms are often decorated with scrolls. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasselled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchins are used as curtain tie-backs and look stunning hanging on the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

Pair of Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), extremely intricately gilded and hand painted on a beautiful square-shaped body in "chibu" technique in dark blue on the top and a...

Pair of Japanese porcelain scroll weights (fuchin), extremely intricately gilded and hand painted on a beautiful square-shaped body in "chibu" technique in dark blue. First developed in the early years of the 19th century, the “chibu” technique tasks the artist with painstakingly creating patterns with minute raised pigmented drops of equal size placed at precise intervals to generate a highly textured and mesmerizing field of raised dots that are most frequently done in a bluish-green hue as in the piece, but also in white and gold. This pair is from the Kutani region of Japan and each piece bears the mark of Kutani on the reverse side. Traditional Japanese rooms are often decorated with scrolls. A “fuchin” or scroll weight is a pair of tasseled weights made of porcelain or stone that is hung on the scroll's bottom end roller to straighten the scroll and steady it in the breeze. Fuchin also accentuates the beauty of the scroll. Fuchins are used as curtain tie-backs and look stunning hanging on the knobs, keys and locks of armoires and cabinets...

A framed fragment of textile that used to belong to the collection of the Bank of New York. It is identified as a Turkish Cicim Yastik, a cushion cover. B...

Moroccan caftan in gold damask brocade maxi dress kaftan handmade by Moroccan Artist. Handcrafted vintage exotic 1970s gold and orange brocade ceremon...

Amazing vintage caftan, black silk velvet heavily hand embroidered with gold threads, circa 1960s The black velvet kaftan is embroidered and embell...

Here's is a large and finely caste bronze rabbit -usagi- in a pensive crouching form, that we have come across n our Japanese travels. It is an unusually large one from the middle pa...

17th century Turkish ottoman Empire velvet and gold embroidered pillow sham.