Volume 1 of Otto von Falke's history of silk weaving art (1913), serving as the explanatory text to the plate series on the textile collection of the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. It follows silk and related textiles from antiquity through the high Middle Ages: Greek and Roman weaving and tapestry, late antique textiles from Egypt (Antinoe, Achmim, Alexandria), Coptic work, Byzantine and Syrian silks, Sassanian Persian and East Asian silks, and Islamic silks of Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Spain and Sicily. The front matter has catalogs of plates with signet symbols, dates, places of origin and holdings, and the book is illustrated with 212 figures of textile fragments, vase paintings, silver vessels and reliefs used for stylistic dating. The text is art-historical, focused on pattern, style and provenance, with some remarks on technique, dyes and materials.

Volume 2 of Otto von Falke's art history of silk weaving, in German, with 400 illustrations, published in 1913. It covers Byzantine silks, medieval gold threads, Romanesque silks from Paris and Regensburg, the late medieval silk style shaped by Gothic and Chinese art, and the silk weaving of Italy (Lucca, Venice, Florence, Milan) in the 14th and 15th centuries. It then follows the main currents from 1500 to 1800: Italian and Spanish Renaissance and Baroque silks, French silk style of the 17th and 18th centuries, Empire fabrics, and Persia. Most pages are photographic plates of fabric fragments, vestments and related paintings with captions naming museum collections, accompanied by stylistic and historical discussion of patterns, dating and attribution.