Fluttering fabrics, Textile Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

Fluttering fabrics, Textile Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

Palace guard in achkan suit at former Royal Guest House now a textile museum in the Maharaja's Moon Palace in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Palace guards in achkan suit at former Royal Guest House now a textile museum in the Maharaja's Moon Palace in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Man weaving on a traditional loom in the National Museum, Niamey, Niger, Africa

Man weaving on a traditional loom in the National Museum, Niamey, Niger, Africa

Fashion and Textile Museum, Southwark, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Fashion and Textile Museum, Southwark, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Traditional, handcrafted textile bearing an edelweiss design at a museum in Zdiar, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Europe

Weaving loom, Hessenpark outdoor museum near Neu-Anspach, Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany, Europe

The Kaltmang, 19th century, was driven by animals or humans, used for textile processing, Franconian Open Air Museum, Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

BMW Isetta built between 1955 and 1962, special exhibition Bavaria-Italy 2010, New National Textile and Industrial Museum, Provinostrasse 46, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Museo del costume e della tradizione del lino, Busachi, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

Gold Artifacts Moche (Mochica) Culture, 100 to 700AD, NCoast Lord of Sipan Tomb, c300AD model of Lord's attendant in ornaments of gold and turquoise, Peru

Chancay Culture, 13C AD textile showing a catalogue of weaving styles and designs in the collection of the Museo Amano, Lima, Peru

Paracas Culture, 300BC-100AD, funerary wrap with fantastic zoomorphic figures finest Pre-Columbian textiles Archaeology Museum, Lima, Peru

Paracas Culture, 300BC-100AD, funerary wrap with jaguar and monkey design on collar of mantle collection of the Museo Amano, Lima, Peru

Paracas Culture, 300BC-100AD, funerary wrap with fantastic zoomorphic figures finest Pre-Columbian textiles Archaeology Museum, Lima, Peru

Artifacts from the Chancay Culture, 1100-1400AD, north coast textile with repeating feline and bird designs Museum of the Nation in Lima, Peru

Lambayeque Culture, c 100-800AD skirt with human and animal forms N Coast near Trujillo Museo Rafael Herrera, Lima, Peru

Chancay Culture, 13C AD serpents with human heads on a fragment of a mantle in the collection of the Museo Amano, Lima, Peru

Chancay Culture, 13C AD the Inca God 'Wiracocha' holding the symbols of his power in the collection of the Museo Amano, Lima, Peru

Chancay Culture, 13C AD jaguar and parrot in negative and positive design, cotton in the collection of the Museo Amano, Lima, Peru

Mochica Culture, 500AD anthropomorphic figure woven of alpaca and cotton in the collection of the Museo Amano, Lima, Peru