Silk road posters & prints

Silk Road. Caravan of camels resting. Engraving Anonymous

The silk road crossed Marco Polo

Caravan on the Silk Road. Detail from the Catalan Atlas Anonymous

Medieval Commerce (Asia) William Robert Shepherd

Map of Central Asia, 1834 John Arrowsmith

Spitalfields silk weaving industry, Alma Road, Bethnal Green, London, 1909 Unknown

History of Paper: 4 Anonymous

Peking Anonymous

Spitalfields silk weaving industry, Alma Road, Bethnal Green, London, 1909 Unknown

Ruins of Palmyra, ancient city of Syria, 1725 Johann Adam Delsenbach

Detail of Marco Polo's route across eastern deserts, map of Tartary, 16th-18th century Francesco & Ramusio Giovan Battista (1540) Grisellini

The Great Khan's soldiers take the island of Sypangu, c.1410-12 Boucicaut Master

Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India, c.1410-12 (and workshop) Boucicaut Master

Wall painting from the Red Hall of the Palace in Varakhsha. Fragment Anonymous

Dancing Ladies, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 School Chinese

Kublai Khan gives a golden tablet ensuring safe passage to Niccolo and Maffeo Polo Anonymous

Navigators using an astrolabe in the Indian Ocean, c.1410-12 Boucicaut Master

Hazreti Shakh-i-Zindeh Mausoleum in Samarkand, 1869-70 Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin

Fragments of a Caftan Covered with a Silk Fabric with a Senmurv Pattern. (Moshchevaya Balka Burial M Medieval Culture of the North Caucasian Silk Road

Head of a statue of Buddha, from Bezeklik, 9th-10th century Xingjiang Xingjiang

Main Street in Samarkand, Early Morning, 1869-70 Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin

Rounton Road washing lines, c.1930 Henry Silk

Caravan en route for China camping at Bhamo, Burma Stereo Travel Co

Rounton Road lean-to, c.1930 Henry Silk

Manufacturing silk, Syria Underwood & Underwood

Roof-tops from Rounton Road, c.1930 Henry Silk

Silk fabric Anonymous

The Silk Merchant, 1890-93 Robert Frederick Blum

Large Syringa Edward William Godwin

Textile design Unknown

Length of silk. Gujarat, India, 19th century Unknown

Textile Unknown

Textile Unknown

Landscape with Ox Carts on a Road Li Xiying

Page from a textile sample book; - Butterflies & Flowers; silk or synthetic fibre with printed decoration; Japanese; 1939 Unknown

Butterfly Brocade Edward William Godwin