In an unprecedented tribute to the art of golden textiles across the centuries and civilisations, Tunisia shines with its cannetille embroidery and golden thread costumes at the Musée du quai ...

Zardozi is a luxurious hand embroidery of gold and silver favored ... Some designers still use pure silver and semiprecious metal threads, preserving age-old techniques," says designer JJ Valaya ...

Other pieces are just as impressive. A magnificent 20th-century gold silk jacquard cope from Germany depicts the Holy Trinity in silk and metal thread embroidery. A midnight blue silk velvet chasuble ...

With Eid approaching, the artisans of the port city's Bihari Palli, who specialise in zardozi and karchupi work (intricate designs done by hand with beads and metal thread embroidery) are working ...