Accoutrements

This neck cover or Ghughi is from the North-West of India from the Saurashtra peninsular in Gujarat. There are three main styles of embroidery; the Kathipa domestic embroidery worked with flossed silk in an elongated chain stitch, geometric designs. The figurative work of the Kanbi and associated Farming Castes and

This neck cover or Ghughi is from the North-West of India from the Saurashtra peninsular in Gujarat. There are three main styles of embroidery; the Kathipa domestic embroidery worked with flossed silk in an elongated chain stitch, geometric designs. The figurative work of the Kanbi and associated Farming Castes and

This neck cover or Ghughi is from the North-West of India from the Saurashtra peninsular Gujarat. There are three main styles of embroidery; the Kathipa domestic embroidery worked with flossed silk in an elongated chain stitch, geometric designs. The figurative work of the Kanbi and associated Farming Castes and the

This neck cover or Ghughi is from the North-West of India from the Saurashtra peninsular Gujarat. There are three main styles of embroidery; the Kathipa domestic embroidery worked with flossed silk in an elongated chain stitch, geometric designs. The figurative work of the Kanbi and associated Farming Castes and the

This is probably an Afghan Baluch, identifiable from the colours used in the blanket. Afghani carpets tend to use an orange dye, dark sultry red, black and blue. The Baluch tribes are renown for their use of indigo and reds. The design suggest that the maker was aware of the

This highly decorative horse blanket is from Delhi, India and would have been made for a wedding. The design has swans made from lines of pearls. In the centre of each swan is a cut glass button. The swans sit on lakes of gold sequins. The surrounding decoration is of

This also comes from Delhi, India and matches the previous horse blanket except that it is decorated with doves designed with lines of pearls. In each section is a tree of life with a resplendent jeweled flower at the top. It is set on red velvet with leather backing. The

This saddle cloth was purchased in Jaipur. It is embroidered on red cloth with vibrant yellow, green blue purple and cobalt decorations. They include a lovely snake like pattern along the border. The dyes would be chemical judging by the vibrancy and the piece which is relatively modern. Jaipur in

This horse blanket is from Iran. It is decorated with tassels and has the abstracted design of fat-tailed sheep on the body of the blanket. It is a colourful and fine example of the kind of blanket worn to the races and on ceremonial occasions. Some of the tassels are

This is a very old horse carpet (possibly Afghan-Turkmen, or Afghan-Baluch). When purchased it was described as Baluch. The patterns used are so very typical of the Afghani carpets with the birds tail used in repeated patterns. The central lozenge has a feel of Turkman about it, but there is