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<h1>Antique Textiles</h1>
Textile simply means cloth, while decoration can take many forms, the two combined
produce infinite variety and skill. The finest examples of Antique Textiles can
be described as an art form. Antique Textiles appeal on many levels, their tactile
quality, color and decoration make them uniquely desirable. Textiles are universal
in every culture, every age has utilized them, few other media are so versatile.
Antique Textiles are everywhere, clothing, furniture of limitless color and texture
are an intrinsic part of our past. Modern mass production has led us to take plentiful,
varied and inexpensive cloth for granted. This was not always so. Before the advent
of the mechanized loom, every fragment of cloth was hand dyed, woven, printed
or embroidered. Extreme thought and skill were an intrinsic part of their creation.
Many fabrics have survived providing a richness of reference and from these archives,
fashions and interiors of the past are evoked in the smallest swatches of antique
textile.
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