Social Fabrics looks at tiraz – highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in Arabic – to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story as interwoven and comp...

The diverse and beautiful art of Qajar Iran (1779-1925) has long been understudied and underappreciated. This insightful publication reassesses Qajar art, particularly its four principal mediums – lacquer, painting and drawing on paper, lithography,...