Catalog of Islamic Carpets. Bulletin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 36: 4 - 113

Paperback. New book. 7l illus., 5 in color. About 50 of these rugs were donated to the museum from the estate of Charles Hall, one of the two inventory of the Hall-Heroult process, used to make aluminum from aluminum ore. Hall died, quite wealthy as might have been expected, in 1915, so these rugs are 19th century. 4 others came from another donor in 1904 and the other examples in this exhibtion are also 19th century, including a 19th century Caucasian dragon sile flatweave used as wrapping to ship an archeological altar from Pergamon to the Berlin Museum. The rugs are mostly tribal and village. There are 20 Persian, 22 Turkish, 10 Caucasian, 13 Turkmen, and 6 Indian and Chinese. Illustrations are sometimes fuzzy.