Presents a region-by-region survey of textiles made, worn, used and displayed in the Islamic world. This text includes details of dozens of textile techniques, such as loom types, materials, forms of decoration and local specialities, paired with specially taken colour images of textiles on display, and photographs of weavers and dyers in action

• The Ottoman World: Turkey
• The Balkans
• Islamic Spain and North Africa: Islamic Spain
• Morocco
• Algeria
• Tunisia
• Libya
• Egypt
• Tge Arab World: Syria
• Palestine
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia
• Kuwait
• Oman
• Yemen
• The Persian World: Iran
• The Caucasus
• Central Asia: Uzbekistan
• Turkmenistan
• Tajijistan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Afghanistan
• The Mughal World: India
• Pakistan
• Bangladesh
• East and Southeast Asia: China
• Malaysia
• Indonesia
• The Philippines
• Sub-Saharan Africa: East Africa
• West Africa