Finally, there is a series of spectacular textiles — royal kente cloths — for both men and women.
Textron was founded in 1923 by the American businessman and investor Royal Little as a textile firm under the name Special Yarns Corporation, which changed its name to Atlantic Rayon Corporation in 1935.
This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary aesthetic and technical diversity of Indian textiles made for royal courts, temples, adornment and trade, from the last 600 years.
Metallic threads, prepared in numerous shapes to fit diverse textile techniques, have been used for ornamental reasons, to produce exquisite garments or textile arts for clerical, royal, and bourgeois clientele.
The site has entries for more than 100,000 items taken from Oxfam stores all over the United Kingdom (not just clothes and books, but also stamps, coins, textiles, old newspapers, the chintziest royal memorabilia) and it ships internationally.
Near the royal graves at Naqsh-e Rustam, professional textile cleaners wash carpets and leave them to dry in the sun.
"Textile art" conjures up images of royal Ottoman tents, or the excessive reign of Louis XIV, but the world of tapestries still thrives today.
The V&A has also brought out its own fragile full-size drawings for the tapestries; Raphael's designs, which British royals acquired in 1623, have been reunited with the textiles for the first time in four centuries.
The exhibition will begin with a recreation of an Indian royal procession with a life-sized model elephant adorned with animal jewellery, textiles and trappings, and surmounted with a silver howdah.
It is one of eight outfits that, alongside royal weaponry, represent "the political height" of his reign, according to the textile conservator Stefanie Penthin, and will have its home in the state bedroom.
