Kate B. Harding

  I’m a real nerd for textiles (!) and I get equally excited by the collections at Saks as by those at the Museum of Natural History. So I had a bit of a “moment” when I stumbled upon these amazing fabrics from the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress. These photos were taken [...]

  For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.                                                         -James Elroy Flecker   Whim of the Week! Samarkand! These Library of Congress images were taken between 1905 and 1915. For more contemporary images of the spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Site, visit this Flickr set.