Cotton Wall Decorations

Large size woven camel's headdress featuring much detail with bright strong colors and multiple wool tassels. This piece is difficult to photograph without a camel as a model but it ...

Rare perfect antique collection Japanese Indigo Boro Futon cover : also to use. The rare antique boros are now valued as pieces of art, therefore they are...

Pink, black, green and orange Nepali Dhaka Topi hat. Sandwiched between two custom cut acrylic or Lucite pieces. Lucite has bored holes at each corner for...

Beautifully detailed, this antique suzani has a mix of hand-embroidery work and applique design. All of the colors are vibrant and the craftmanship is extremely precise.

Red "Suzani". A beautiful old embroidered cover "Suzani" from Uzbekistan in the style and color palette that is associated with the city of Tashkent. The motifs are executed in silk ...

International code of signals pennant, number 2. Triangular blue stitched linen panel with white circle in center. Matted and framed. Approximately 20" x 33.5".

A fabulous 19th-century handwoven tapestry in an excellent condition. The scene of celebration among nature. A similar technique is used for making the tapestry as in Aubusson and Ne...

Super rare and impressive pair of large cotton ''gordijnstof' curtains, designed in 1963 by world renowned Dutch painter and sculptor Karel Appel (1921-2006) for the textile company Hermann Hartman & Co of Amsterdam. This extremely rare, original repeat print textile is documented in the Stedelijk museum's textile collection under object nubmer KNA 1998, please see image 2. Each curtain measures 56.7" X 83.85" (144cm X 213cm). 'Gordijnstof' translates as "curtain fabric" confirming that this textile was originally designed by Appel specifically for use as curtains however being of such an impressive dimension these examples could equally be used as wall hangings ,as photographed, or mounted on both sides of a screen or mounted and framed as an art work in its own right , a practice which is becoming increasingly commonplace as high end textile designs by important artists are becoming increasingly valued , appreciated and sought after in the marketplace. Appel's paintings and sculptures can be found in the collections of some of the world's most prominent museums including the Museum of Modern art in New York and Tate Modern ,London. Each curtain is of a very impressive scale with each measuring 56.7 " (144 cm) X 83.85" (213cm). The curtains are signed on the banding KUNSTENAAR DESSIN ONTWERP Karel Appel, HARTMAN PRINT, AMSTERDAM. Another of Appel's designs for Hermann Hartman,Amsterdam can be found in the collection of the national textile museum in Holland. Please see image 9. Even a small sample of this 1963 textile in good condition would be hard to find today but to find two large scale Appel curtains intact and in beautiful unfaded condition with no staining or fraying must be next to unique today. This is a very rare find and certainly a unique opportunity. Image 10 shows Karel Appel in his atelier in New York in 1966. Provenance: These curtains come from the private collection of a retired Professor from Oxford,UK. Biography: Karel Appel was an Expressionist Dutch painter. He was a member of the famous Cobra, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s, which promoted spontaneous expressionism and abstract features in painting. Appel's paintings incorporate applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality or a schizophrenic innocence. Later in life, Appel turned to creating figurative sculptures. Examples of his work can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, and other collections. Expressionist painter Karel Appel made a name for himself in the world of painting by creating a majestic collection of highly distinguishable work for which he became internationally renowned. From the start, art curators could not ignore Appel's work, which has been exhibited at major museums around the world, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Manhattan-based Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Tate Gallery in London. Though Appel is widely recognized as one of the best-known Dutch Expressionist painters of all time, he was also a passionate printmaker, sculptor, and ceramicist. Karel Appel’s childhood and early life Christiaan Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in his parents’ house at 7 Dapperstraat, Amsterdam. His father, Jan Appel, owned a barbershop. His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots. Karel Appel had three brothers. He studied art from 1940 to 1943 at the Rejksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts during the German occupation and befriended young painter Corneille and, some years later, Constant. His parents opposed his choice to become an artist, leading him to leave home. This was also necessary to hide himself from the German police so that he would not be picked up and sent to Germany to work in the weapon industry. Appel produced his first real painting on canvas, which was a still life of a fruit basket at the age of fourteen. On his fifteenth birthday, his wealthy uncle Karel Chevalier gave him a paint set and an easel and some lessons on painting. Career. In 1946, his first solo show was held in Groningen, Netherlands. He also participated in the Jonge Schilders exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam nd created a buzz in the art world, as it generated a huge scandal and many objections in the press and public. About this time, Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by the French brute-art artist Jean Dubuffet. In 1947, he started sculpting with various used materials and painted them in bright colors such as white, red, yellow, blue and black. Karel Appel became the member of Nederlandse Experimentele Group in Holland along with the young Dutch painters Anton Rooskens...

"Grain Sack" rug. A tribal storage bag or rug, opened up to be used as a small rug or a wall hanging. Rug is excellent for high traffic areas as these are woven for hard use. It woul...

Museum Quality West African Indigo Textile. From Dahomey (Benin), Circa 1925. The same piece is in the permanent collection of Musée de l'Homme in Paris. There has been a lot...

Cotton double ikat kimono, Japan, Early 20th Century A graphically compelling example of a Bingo-gasuri kimono, produced in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. ...

Measures: 4'1 x 8'8. American hooked rugs are indigenous to the Northeast of the United States and Eastern Canada. Their production began in the mid-1800s, gradually spreading lower in to North America. Early American Hooked rugs...

This antique Suzani consists of all hand-embroidery work, with vibrant colored silk threading.

Offered by Andres Moraga. Wedding blanket or tent hanging, "Arkilla Jenngo" Woven by Fulani weavers for a Tuareg noble family Inland Delta Region, Nige...

A graphically bold, lifesize embroidered textile depicting Moa Zedong grasping a symbolic red umbrella and shoulder satchel. The banner was created as a potent visual tool in announc...

A wall hanging tapestry, simply put, is a textile specifically designed and woven to portray an artistic scene with the intent of hanging it on a wall. Antique tapestries, those that...

Tapestries LTD. Large hand woven Renaissance style wall hanging 55" x 78". Excellent condition. Tapestries LTD is one of the world top tapestries manufacturing companies and famous a...

Exquisite Jean Picart Le Doux" "Concerto" silkscreened tapestry of musical instruments on wall hung weaving. Signed on front, label to back. Hand-signed by Le Doux and numbered on ...

Nice mid century French Aubusson style tapestry with beautiful medieval design of nature and animals , with beautiful colours, hand printed on wool and cotton foundation.

Exceptional needlepoint Hand stitched wall hanging beautiful colourful tree of life with birds bees ,butterflies, flowers and vines , All on a camel color background motifs. Origina...

USA, 1920's “Cake Stand Baskets” antique quilt. The triangles make for a more complex design than many Basket quilts are. This example is very well pieced and quilted. The white off...

Huge framed minimalist ZERO artwork in textile by a known Dutch artist, signed and dated. With limited use of color and material this piece creates an interesting play with light and shadow, linking it to the Minimalist ZERO. Zero was an artist group founded in Düsseldorf in 1958 by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. The word 'zero', in the words of Piene, meant: "a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning". In 1961, Günther Uecker joined the group. ZERO, written in capital letters, stands for the international movement, with artists from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy. The movement is usually interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism by claiming that art should not have color, emotion and individual expression. The Zero group...

A Japanese hand-woven textile panel with indigo blue background with alternative white stripes intercepted with shorter horizontal ikat bands. Sewn together from four loom-woven narr...

Early 20th Century Chinese Minority Baby Carrier Panel, Miao People A beautifully woven panel that would have made up the main section of a baby ca...

Very beautiful mid century French hand printed tapestry with beautiful design of the famous medieval museum tapestry called Vendanges (gra...

Pretty mid century French tapestry with a medieval design called Vandanges (grape harvest) at Cluny museum, with nice colors, entirely hand printed on cotton foundation.

1st Half 20th Century Indian Woman’s Shawl / Phulkari This large vibrant woman’s shawl is almost completely covered with dense silk-floss embroidery on...

Large, signed, framed Livio de Simone original hand painted flower on cotton fabric. Made in Italy. Nice vibrant and bold colors. Livio de Simone - D...

Large, Signed Livio de Simone original hand painted geometric shaped pattern on cotton fabric. Made in Italy. Livio de Simone, designer-artist and cre...

Superb French handcrafted Tapestry by Jean Picard Le Doux executed by Henri Duprez. Limited edition of 500, this one is 456. Proof of Authenticity on th...

Presented here is a pair of original vintage curtain panels designed by Verner Panton for Mira-X. Both curtains are 80 inches long by 44 inches...