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A closeup of a small section from a bolt of fabric from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.

Warming up on a winter's evening.

A map from the 1686 French embassy to Siam, showing the route the two ships took from Brest to Ayutthaya.

Everything is connected.

Drawn from a 19th century French velvet textile pattern

Taken in Newcastle, NSW

A gorgeous blue scene of a fantastical Italian countryside from the eighteenth century.

A photo taken somewhere in the back streets of Berlin

A photo through some trees in Geneva

A design and a drawing in one, envisioning a world that may come sooner than we think.

A beautiful and delicate repeating pattern of seventeenth-century Dutch tilework from Delft. The subtle forms of bears, women, swans, men, and clowns blend through the shapes, and the craquelure gives this a facade of depth.

True Ancien Regime style and opulence encased in a simple wooden design of Apollo. Emblazoned on doors throughout Versailles, this is a universally recognised symbol for Louis XIV.

From a wall somewhere in Azerbaijan

Detail from the walls inside Alhambra, in Granada

This is a detail of the door to enter the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Photograph of the alpine lake, Song Kol, in the northern Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan.

A portion of a wall in Tbilisi, Georgia, decorated with intricate tilework recalling the Soviet Brutalist style

Embroidered Flowers

Taken surreptitiously inside Abu Simbel, south of Aswan, in Egypt

Found in Chernobyl, this space squirrel was the mascot in the theatre

Two pages from a sample book from a silk textile factory in Lyon, and probably made during the nineteenth century. These were used to show to prospective buyers as a guide to the range of patterns and designs that the factory could produce.

A yurt among the mists in the mountains in Kyrgyzstan

You're lucky you're not the department of social affairs and woodland fairies!

A beautifully detailed series of ceramic tiles with small children. For fans of blue and white porcelain.

A beautiful panel from a nineteenth-century stained glass window showing the beginnings of the Aesthetic style in America

A handy guide of all the subject of Project Blackwing

City By Night

Used to determine the colour accuracy of an image, this is an arresting and mesmerising pattern.

Thai Architraves

I don't get it. Is the pineapple a slut or is it calling someone else a slut?

Outside St Sulpice

Project Icarus

This is a page from a richly coloured Quran dating back to the 9th century. Probably made somewhere in North Africa, this is a very striking piece of art. The writing is very hard to decipher due to the changes made for stylisation in the calligraphic script.

Drawn from a design in the Tashkent Metro, this is a unique hybrid of Central Asian Islamic and Soviet Brutalism.

I work, I eat, I shower. That's it.

An example of a mid-20th century textile pattern from the Pahlavi dynasty.