James Opie Book order (chronological)

Expert advice and entertaining anecdotes from world's leading expert. Guidance on price trends and buying or selling at auction. Lavishly illustrated with well over 200 colour photos of the author's fantastic collectionForeword by Sir Max Hastings

James Opie covers the weavings of the nomadic and village-dwelling peoples of Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and describes the ancient roots of tribal weaving and the significance of their common patterns and traditions. In his discussion of the origins of tribal weaving, he follows the history of ancient and traditional designs to the present, and provides illustrations with diagrams that enable the reader to identify the relationships between the patterns and their makers.

Offers historical as well as practical information on dolls and their houses, tin-plate toys, teddy bears, toy trains, soldiers and other figures, die-cast toys, and television and film character toys