Vintage Hand-Woven Dragon Pillow

Vintage Chinese textile, with a finely detailed nicely dragon embroidery on red silk background. Displayed in a contemporary gold wood fram...

Exceptional pillow made of handwoven quality silk Chinese rug fragment, soft silk feel like velvet Beautiful motifs of flowers and vine, double silk backing, with fresh new quality ...

Exceptional pillow made of gold metallic thread embroidery on cotton foundation with beautiful artistic geometric motifs. Fine cotton backing. Salvaged from larger antique tribal textile.

Beautiful pillow made of hand woven quality European tapestry fragment textile, great texture, geometric floral foliage motifs with nice bird and two butterflies look on the front ...

Antique Chinese embroidered textile made into a custom lumbar pillow. Antique blue woven silk textile featuring center dragon motif. Pillow is made of Scalamandre iridescent celadon green silk with brushed fringe and gimp trim...

Antique Chinese embroidered textile made into a custom pillow. Antique pillow is made of Claremont champagne silk with bronze colored flat trim. Sewn sh...

An impressive Japanese embroidery tapestry circa 1890s Meiji period, presented with brocade border on linen canvas in a Lucite shadow box. The stunning design features three dragons coiling and flying in the clouds. The high relief technique used to render the dragons using mostly the silver threads gives this piece a tremendous sense of motion. The most auspicious mythological creature in Japan and China, dragons were a very popular motif in textile art. In this particular piece, it is the impressive size, the superb craftsmanship, the profuse use of silver threads and near perfect condition that set it apart. Japanese Meiji textiles were widely exhibited in the west during turn of the 20th century at the international exposition. It was used to showcase the Japanese aesthetics with the techniques at their pinnacle. These expositions solidified the country's images overseas and felled the Japanese craze in the west, which turned out to be a long-lasting influence on the western art. Many pieces were purchased and stayed in the west. It is likely this estate piece was from one of the expositions based on its high quality. For two similar dragon tapestries...

Antique 19th century French tapestry pillow. Tribal and traditional.