The Topkapi Saray Museum: costumes, embroideries and other textiles
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Costumes
- The Collection of Sultans' and other Ottoman costumes and embroideries in the Topkapi Saray and their history
- Silk textiles: geography and types
- Dyes and dyestuffs
- The silk industry: organization
- Garments: Fashion, style pattern
- Some sources for the history of Ottoman textiles
- Hierarchies and rank
- Wool and mohair
- The Ottoman fur trade
- Part II: Embroideries
- Turkish embroideries: historical documentation
- Embroideries: Captions and notes to illustrations.