The Atlas of Rugs and Carpets: A Comprehensive Guide for the Buyer and Collector - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025111205 ISBN 13: 9780025111202

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1985

Synopsis

Traces the history of carpets, discusses dyes, weaving techniques, and symbolic patterns, explains how to buy and care for carpets, and looks at examples from Turkey, Russia, Persia, China, India, and North America

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The Macmillan Atlas provides the interested layperson with an overview of carpet history, production, and design. The main part of the volume is a gazetteer, with maps, of carpet production areas the world over. Data for each region include history and typical characteristics of carpets woven in that area; clear photographs provide visual examples. The atlas covers not only Oriental carpets, but also European and North American. A few words of advice on the buying and care of carpets are appended. A good choice for public libraries. Shahsavan is an extraordinary work, a thorough portrait of an almost extinct art form. The Shahsavan are a confederation of Turkish-speaking tribes who inhabit northwest Iran. Given the political state of Iran and the breakup of tribal traditions, the rugs illustrated hereprimarily flat weaves with specific tribal usesare rarely produced anymore. The work is very well written and translated, and, despite the wealth of scholarly detail, can be appreciated by anyone with a love for and interest in carpets. The many clear diagrams and charts make this a good choice for weavers as well. An outstanding, beautifully illustrated example of research on carpets. Patricia R. Hausman, Williamsburg Regional Lib., Va.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0025111205
• ISBN 13: 9780025111202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Editor: Black David