Starting To Collect Antique Oriental Rugs (Starting to Collect Series) - Hardcover

Eiland III, Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851494065 ISBN 13: 9781851494064

Publisher: Acc Art Books, 2007

Synopsis

Continuing the readable, informative and helpful series 'Starting to Collect', this volume investigates one of the most thorny of collecting fields - antique oriental rugs. Novice collectors are in good hands here, for the author takes them through the initial problembatical areas - where to buy, what to look for, care and restoration, before turning his attention to the materials and techniques, dyes and designs, involved in the manufacture of rugs. In subsequent chapters on the output of different rug-producing locations, Dr. Eiland considers these area by area, so that, for instance, Persian rugs are discussed under eighteen area subheadings, including the Aegean region, Grdes, and the Anatolian coast. Within each chapter he considers the typical structure, size, designs and colours found in the area, together with any other significant features which will aid the new collector in identification. The body of the book presents and illustrates rugs from Persia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Afghanistan,

About this title

About the Author

Murray Eiland III has a doctorate in oriental archaeology from Oxford University. He has spent time working and travelling in many of the Near Eastern and Central Asian countries whose rugs illustrated and described in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Acc Art Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851494065
• ISBN 13: 9781851494064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192