Textiles

Book open to a spread with images of two sides of a large weaving
Reading List: Textile Arts

With four more weeks of winter left to go, bundle up with a list of recommended reads from the Frick Art Research Library on textile arts, compiled by Cori Edmonds-Hutchinson, Discovery Lead.

Two red carpets with gold floral patterns
Gardens of Eternal Spring: Two Mughal Carpets in The Frick Collection
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The two magnificent carpets on display in the Oval Room beginning July 25 were among the fewer than five hundred that survive from the court of the Mughal emperors. Woven in northern India in the mid-seventeenth century, these carpets were luxurious objects in terms of both the fabrics used to make them (silk and cashmere) and the artistically complex patterns that they display. The Frick carpets date from the reign of Shah Jahan (1628–1658) and were probably made at the royal factory in Lahore, one of India’s main cities for carpet production.