Ottoman textiles, several incorporating gold-coloured metal strips: a square cloth or turban cover edged in hand-made silver metal thread lace, wi...

19th century Ottoman embroidered textiles, mainly towels, with sashes and end panels: ten examples worked in silks and metal threads, some with ex...

Antique Greek Island embroidery: nine sections of silk embroidery on linen, probably from a bed hanging, 18th century, monochrome embroidery from ...

Ottoman textiles: four good embroidered items, comprising a fine towel, each end finished in metal thread lace, two borders with stylized designs ...

A Fine Antique Darning sampler, Dutch or German, worked on linen with silk threads, dated 1837, featuring 9 darns with intricate and finely execut...

An Antique European sampler dated 1908, alpha-numeric, worked in red on a fairly open weave canvas, bearing the name Felomena Fernandez, approx. 4...

The lower section of a 17th/18th century band sampler, being the needlepoint lace bands, four, on linen, one band partly unfinished and thus illus...

Two 19th century turban covers or wraps, bocha, square, the first of fine linen and very heavily embellished with gold embroidery and sequins, fea...

A 19th century Brussels Bobbin Appliqué lace fan, the monture of white mother of pearl, the head shaped, the lace designed with flowers abs leaves...

18th and 19th century needlework samplers and embroideries: the first, a European stitch sampler showing various techniques, including bargello wo...

A very long 19th century linen panel formed from multiple sections showing sewing techniques, English or Northern European, incorporating darning,...

Mid-19th century unused Berlin woolwork and beadwork panels on canvas incorporating plushwork: a shield-shaped panel in apricot silk thread, the c...

Indo-Persian textiles: a selection of good embroidered textiles from the 9th century and possibly earlier, comprising two end sections of a cream ...

A large fan, the monture of pink mother of pearl, gilded, the cream silk leaf Chinese, being embroidered in pastels with a branch of flowering blo...

A small early 19th century needlework sampler, worked in dark green thread on fine linen, dated 1838, June 17th, Mary Chell Coleshill, with religi...

Antique lace and embroidery: a velvet Panel, 19th century, most likely salvaged from a damaged reticule, finely embroidered with a spray of flower...

A good 18th century needle work sampler, dated 1792 in three places, alpha-numeric with the addition of silk embroidered bands of crowns, flowers,...

Five c 1890’s fans plus an assortment of tourist and other fans: a large bone fan, the leaf a good heavy cream silk, backed in cream, the recto pa...

Antique Lace: A quantity of lace examples mostly purchased from the lace specialist Anne Swift who sold in Portello Road antiques market in London...

19th/20th century gold thread and beaded fragments including ecclesiastical items: comprising a gold sequin and thread panel worked on black silk;...

Trade beads: a good quantity of beads, in various colours, shapes and sizes, one segmented, seven almost matching (qty) In good condition

An 18th century Band Sampler dated May the 24th, 1789, by Sarah ?rarrant, longer than normal due to the addition of a lower section containing exa...

Mid-19th century Berlin woolwork and beadwork on canvas: an unused set of panels for the back and seat of a salon chair, the background a deep yel...

Needlework samplers, two, the first in 18th century band sampler form, on linen, worked with more figures and objects than is the norm, including ...

Trade beads: a selection of beads to include millefiori, different sizes and shapes, plus oddments and fragments (62+) In good condition but also...

Trade Beads: a quantity of patterned beads in subtle colours, various sizes and shapes to include tubes and hexagonal examples (18) In good condi...

World textiles: a shawl of printed cotton batik, a busy design to the centre with larger designs to the ends, Indonesia, approx. 259 cm by 107 cm;...

18th to 20th century brisé fans: a c 1820’s tortoiseshell fan with pointed sticks, pierced, alternate sticks painted with flower heads, barrel hea...

Antique Peruvian woven textiles, and fragments and three specialist books, (in German, but many illustrations); a small fragment, framed, possibly...

Vintage textiles: an Indian patchwork and embroidered cloth or cover, with Shisha/mirror work, worked in bands out from the embroidered centre, ba...

An antique linen band sampler, alpha/numeric, dated 1834; together with a colourful alpha/numeric sampler worked on gauze, attribution indistinct,...

A 19th century patchwork cover formed from panels of silk embroidered with entwined initials in two sizes, backed in a man-made red fabric, made ...

A 19th century needlework sampler worked in bands of the alphabet, some in the Scottish embroidery fashion, dated 1830, Janet McLeish, with peacoc...

Antique Lace: a selection of edgings and insertion lace and braids in very small scale, perhaps useful for doll and baby clothes, together with sm...

Antique Peruvian woven textiles: the first previously first sold as being Chancay, with two figures inside borders, approx. 22 cm by 17 cm, with a...

Original fan-designed machine-stitched coverlet by Doris Maxwell, mother of former Fan Circle International member Kathy Maxwell in Australia, dat...

Ecclesiastic embroidered items: a good decorative panel with couched gold thread embroidery and coloured silks, gold fringing, backed in red, appr...

An early 19th century needlework sampler by Maria Ann Rayden, finished 20th December 1804, silk threads on canvas, tightly worked with bands of th...

Antique Lace: A good length of 18th century needle lace, approx. 422 cm by 23 cm; a Milanese flounce, approx. 230 cm by 21 cm; nine further fragme...

Buttons: an assortment of buttons from tinies to 50’s plastic, various materials to include pearl, diamanté, enamel, cut steel and mother of pearl...

Antique lace collars: a selection of mainly large collars, to include a Bedfordshire lace bertha; a cream tape lace collar with long front points;...

Antique Lace and accessories: a deep and detailed Irish Crochet shawl collar with the lower edge worked in points, the design of flowers and leave...

Antique and vintage fashion accessories and fabrics: comprising good Edwardian and 1920’s ribbons and dress trimmings, some in embroidered net, or...

Two 19th century knitting samplers; the first with 22 sections, with border, approx. 196 cm by 7cm, the second with plain edges but perhaps more c...

C 1890’s, an unusual incised bone fan mounted with a leaf of cream silk, bordered with a floral machine lace, and featuring a sketch in the centre...

Ann Collier: two fans, the first with bone monture carved, shaped and pierced, the leaf comprising cream silk panels painted with pink roses and s...

A wood fan, the monture carved and pierced, painted gold, c 1870’s, the black silk satin leaf with black machine lace to the top edge, the sticks ...

A quantity of beaded fringing and beaded braids, beaded net, beaded and sequined net, loose beads, velvet ribbons, corded trimmings and a roll of ...

Antique Lace: a c 1890’s Mixed Brussels lace fan, the monture of pink mother of pearl, the deep leaf with three needle point flowers surrounded by...

The Spring Fans and Finery auction features unusual needlework in the form of 18th c samplers, band and otherwise, and an exquisitely detailed pic...

A pair of silver napkins, initialled, Sheffield 1913 together with four others, total approximate weight 7oz