Carpets of the World - Hardcover

Berinstain, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 086565980X ISBN 13: 9780865659803

Publisher: Vendome Press, 2002

Synopsis

Seven experts--curators, scholars, and a librarian--discuss the history, design, and manufacture of this form of textile art

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From the Back Cover:

The seven authors of this lavishly illustrated book, each of them a recognized expert, lead us step by step through their respective fields, revealing the secrets of the 'trade', explaining production and restoration, exploring unresolved problems and their fascination. Unlike many books on the subject, Great Carpets of the World covers the subject throughout its historical and cultural spectrum as well as in great depth, from the remote origins of knotted fibers through the techniques of large-scale manufacture. Carpets from the great weaving centers of Turkey and Persia are examined at length, along with the custom of combining calligraphy with abstract and naturalistic design. Also discussed are Indian carpets of the Moghul Empire, the carpets of China, France, Great Britain, Spain, the Caucasus, and North Africa. A special bonus is the full and clear technical chapter, which presents and explains every aspect of carpet weaving - knotted pile, kilim and tapestry, and even needlework, concluding with a revue of the various means of conservation and presentation of old and antique carpets.

About the Author:

Mary Hunt Kahlenberg was assistant curator of Eastern Hemisphere textiles at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. and curator of the Textile and Costume Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She curated the Neutrogena Corporation's art collection and oversaw its transfer to the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. She has written extensively on Navajo and Indonesian textiles. Her best known books are" Walk in Beauty," "The Navajo and their Blankets," "Textile Traditions of Indonesia" and "The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Textiles and Objects from the Neutrogena Collection." She is president of the Tai Gallery/Textile Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Frieda Sorber, master degree in History of Art and Archaeology at the University of Gent, 1976. Since 1976, first assistant curator: later curator of the Antwerp Provincial Costume and Textile Museum. Regularly involved in fieldwork on the subject of costume and textile tradition in Morocco, Indonesia and the Near and Middle East. She has taken part in several exhibitions and video production in Belgium, the United States and Morocco.
Valerie Berinstain, master degree in History of Art and Indian Studies. Formerly curator of the Asian Textiles Collection of the AEDTA, subsequently lecturer at the Institute of Art and Archaeology and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris. Author of several works, publications and articles, e.g., "Phulkary, fleurs brodees du Punjab," AEDTA, Paris 1992.
Claudine Delecourt, graduate in history, history of art and archaeology. She has worked with the "Service Educatif et Conferencier des Musees Royaux et d'Histoire de Bruxelles." Author of"Vie quotidienne au Tibet," Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1989, and of the "Catalogue" of the Musee of Mariemont.
Sandrard spent her childhood in Africa. She has shared her life with a sculptor, who has sharpened her natural sense of space, forms and colours. Sandrard is a creative artist and a passionate stylist of costumes that-- by working with the softness or stiffness of materials-- she effectively harmonizes with sensitivity and originality.
Mauro Magliani is one of the most active Italian photographers in the field of the reproduction of objects and works of art. Along with his wife, Barbara Piovan, he has collaborated since 1986 with the most important Italian and European art publishers, realising photographic reports in Italy and abroad.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vendome Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 086565980X
• ISBN 13: 9780865659803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 377