A gorgeous book, drawing from the V&As enormous collections. It contains over 500 pages of lavish illustrations, each chapter focusing on a different technique - weaving, knitting, dying... read more
Glorious survey of pieces in the Victoria & Albert Museum, from Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew and Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal, Grayson Perry and many others. Many illustrations.
From the author and publisher (Prestel) who did the superb Damascus Tiles a few years ago; covering architectural ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India, and Pakistan.
Molacek, an artist and photographer, has collected over 300 Tibetan rugs, carpets, meditation mats, horse blankets etc; the second volume is dedicated to rugs knotted in the Wangden valley, ... read more
Gorgeous and generous survey arranged by region. Includes very rare pieces. Published to the same high standard as Prestel's 'Textiles of Japan' a couple of years ago.
The two great cabinet-makers worked together for nearly half a century; their clientele and influence were on a par with those of their more famous contemporary, Thomas Chippendale. This mag... read more
The art of imperfection: the work of the aged, self-taught hands of one of Japan's most highly regarded potters. Beautiful work, austere and anchored in ancient techniques of Japanese and Ko... read more
Blaschka père et fils were from Bohemia but moved to Dresden, where they worked in glass from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, making intricate models of sea anemones, medusas, corals and starfi... read more
Another gorgeous book from Thames & Hudson, following their previous volumes Ruby and Emerald. This is the final instalment of the series, and ranges from the C4th to the present, from Centr... read more
This is a fascinating illustrated book on the often elaborate and arresting labels used by British textile manufacturers when exporting to India during the Raj.
The work of Lucien Boucher, 37 of whose marvellous lithographs of Parisian shop fronts are reproduced here, along with an extended, illustrated essay by James Russell and Shaun Whiteside's t... read more
62 writers from 1920s' Paris are reimagined by Guilac as shop keepers... Andre Gide for instance, standing in the doorway of a grocery called Les Caves du Vatican. Delicious and clothbound ... read more