These include gold work, vases imported from Athens, coarse terracottas, textile fragments and specimens of carpentry and marquetry.

Among the Coptic offerings handled at Sotheby's in recent years, textile fragments are the most numerous and least costly, ranging from about $425 to $4,000.

When Bock had the opportunity to sell textile fragments to various interested parties (i.e. museums) he would just cut it off from some precious medieval textile he found.

It was during this period that he began collecting textile fragments and ventured on the first of his many field trips in search of specimens.

Schuster's initial publications centered on traditional design motifs that he found preserved on textile fragments he had collected in western China during the 1930s.

A second-century figurative textile fragment shows a completely Western face, though it was woven in Asia.

It is notable for its audiencia and a textile fragment depicting a ceremony in progress.

Shortly afterward, Mr. Wise left a box of pre-Columbian textile fragments on her doorstep with a request to preserve them.

The oldest weaving is a textile fragment from Peru that dates to the pre-Columbian era and depicts a stylized cat.

A gallery of photographs, letters, personal memorabilia and pre-Columbian textile fragments she collected reflects her character and quietly glamorous personal style.