List of books, suggested reading etc:
Ness, Mrs Patrick (Elizabeth Wilhelmina) (1929)Ten Thousand Miles in Two Continents, Methuen, London
Fleming, P. (1936) News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir: Jonathan Cape, London. First edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Tartary
Bridges, Lucas, (1948) Uttermost Part of the Earth, originally published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1948. Re-issued, with an introduction by Gavin Young, Century, London, 1987, ISBN 0-7126-1493-1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Bridges
Whitfield, Susan (1999) Life Along The Silk Road University of California Press
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Life_Along_the_Silk_Road.html?id=uauW9cvqKGYC&redir_esc=y
Bunn, Stephanie, (2010) Nomadic Felts The British Museum Press – Artistic Traditions in World Cultures
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12575849-nomadic-felts?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=mfVZ4wlUDp&rank=1
Michaud, Roland and Sabrina, (1985) Caravans to Tartary Thames and Hudson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2709283-caravans-to-tartary
Rageth, Jurg, (2016) Turkmen Carpets. A New Perspective Freunde des Orienttepichs, Sarnen
Many of the items listed here, and mentioned on my website, are held by DominicOrr.com, in an archive.