Thompson, John, Silk, Carpets and the Silk Road . This has a superb collection of color photographs. Tsukiyama, Gail, Women of the Silk. New York, St. Martins, 1991. The Textile Industry from Prehistory to the Western Han Dynasty in South China.
Textiles are obscure, from the vendors' point of view.
You will probably have to make your own slides from the illustrated works noted above. The Metropolitan Museum in New York sells a few slides of medieval Islamic silks. The Textile Museum does not publish a slide catalogue, but will make absolutely beautiful slides of pieces in their collection on order. ASDP Silk Roaders especially will want to see this one. This is an engaging portrait of Bursa in Turkey, where sericulture is still a universal cottage industry.