Bencard, Mogens
1995 Persian Textiles at Gottorp, in Bier, The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg, Copenhagen, pp.64-75.

Bier, Carol
1996 The Legacy of Timur: A Small Rug at The Textile Museum, Ghereh (Turin, Italy), August, pp.98-100.

1996 Other Pile Weavings from Safavid Iran: The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg, 7. Internationale Konferenz für Orientteppiche: 7th International Conference on Oriental Carpets Hamburg/Berlin, Düsseldorf, pp.59-68.

1996 Islamic Textiles, c.1500 and Later, Iran, Dictionary of Art. Macmillan, London.

1995 The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg. Copenhagen.

1989 Carpets and History: War, Carpets, Diplomacy and Other Affairs of State, Aramco World Magazine (May/June), pp.8-15. [Reprinted in Rug News (Summer 1989)].

Bier, Carol, ed.
1987 Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (16th - 19th Centuries). The Textile Museum, Washington.

Bier, Carol and Jessica Sloane
1991 Two Shawls, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, New Series, v.5, p.194.

Carpets, Encyclopedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, v.4, pp.834ff. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and New York. (Roger Savory, Jasleen Dhamija, Annette Ittig, Sarah B. Sherrill, Karen S. Rubinson, Barbara Schmitz, Eleanor Sims, Daniel Walker, Layla S. Diba, Willem M. Floor, P.R.J. Ford, Siawosch Azadi, contributors)

Chenciner, Robert
1992 Persian Exports to Russia from the 16th to the 19th Century, Iran, v.30, pp.123-130.

Diba, Layla
1992 Clothing. In the Safavid and Qajar Periods, Encyclopedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, v.5, pp.785-808. Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa CA.

Floor, Willem
1996 The Dutch and the Persian Silk Trade, in Safavid Persia, ed. Charles Melville. Pp.323-368. I.B. Taurus, London and New York.

Folsach, Kjeld von and Anne-Marie Keblow Bernsted
1993 Woven Treasures -- Textiles from the World of Islam. The David Collection, Copenhagen.

Helfgott, Leonard M.
1994 Ties that Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.

Herzig, Edmund M.
1992 The Volume of Iranian Raw Silk Exports in the Safavid Period, Iranian Studies, v.25, n.1-2, pp.61-79.

Ittig, Annette, ed.
1992 The Carpets and Textiles of Iran. The Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, v.25, nos.1-2.

McDowell, J. Allgrove
1989 Textiles, in The Arts of Persia, ed. R.W. Ferrier. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

McWilliams, Mary Anderson
1990 Allegories Unveiled: European Sources for a Safavid Velvet, Textiles and Trade, Textile Society of America, Washington, pp.136-147.

1988 Prisoner Imagery in Safavid Textiles, The Textile Museum Journal 1987, v.26, pp.5-23.

Neumann, Reingard
1988 Persische Seiden: Die Gewebekunst der Safawiden und ihrer Nachfolger. Seeman, Leipzig.

Scarce, Jennifer
1990 The Persian Shawl Industry, The Textile Museum Journal 1988/1989, v.27/28, pp.22-39.

Spuhler, Friedrich, Preben Mellbye-Hansen, and Majken Thorvildsen
1987 Denmark’s Coronation Carpets. The Royal Collections at Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen.

Tanavoli, Parviz
1991 Bread and Salt: Iranian Tribal Spreads and Salt Bags. Tehran.

Tietzel, Brigitte
1988 Persische seiden des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz des Deutschen Textilmuseums Krefeld. Krefeld.

Wertime, John T. and Richard Wright
1995 The Tabriz Hypothesis: The Dragon and Related Floral Carpets, Asian Art: the Second Hali Annual, London, pp.30-53.

Compiled 2/97 for Iranian Studies Seminar in Colombia University by Carol Bier

* This list is not inclusive, particularly for materials on Persian carpets, and makes no mention of numerous articles on rugs and textiles in Hali, a magazine published in London for carpet connoisseurs and collectors, and Oriental Rug Review, now defunct. There are in addition several recent works which touch upon textiles of the Mongol and Timurid periods, including materials recently said to come from Tibet.