Figural cloth

Textile fragment, silk lampas, woven with figurative scenes in garden settings and animals on different coloured grounds: West Asia, Iran, Safavid, c. 1550 - 1575

Fabric length

Velvet tweed fabric length in shades of brown, orange, yellow, grey and blue-grey, hopsack weave structure, this fabric was used by Marc Bohan at Christian Dior for his 'Siberian-look coat with red fox fur hat and trimmings' as part of the Dior Autumn 1964 collection: British, designed by Bernat Klein, 1964