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Originally priced at £75 this hardbacked, jacketed, slip-cased book of 312 pages is in mint condition.

This is a book for serious textile-lovers. Donald King was former Keeper of Textiles at the V&A Museum in London  and was an expert of the old school. His opinion on all matters relating to textiles was always widely sought.

The Keir Collection itself is one of the most widely ranging and comprehensive textile collections gathered together in any country.

There is a chapter relating to embroidered items, but not all items are embroidered and not all images are in colour. Some are in black and white.

These small pattern velvets remind me of the patterns for cross-stitch embroidery in Rosina Furst's embroidery book of 16th century Nuremberg and demonstrates the cross-over of influences as well as the democratization of design and decoration at that time.

The date range of the items in the collection is from the early days of textiles in 4000BCE up to 1800CE.