2009, ISBN: 9781845118327

Textile Museum, 1981., 1981. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book, but some sun-fading on the front cover and slight shelf wear on the edges of the dust jacket.221 p., 62 illus., 40 in c… More...

Textile Museum, 1981., 1981. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book, but some sun-fading on the front cover and slight shelf wear on the edges of the dust jacket.221 p., 62 illus., 40 in color, 31 x 23 cm. An analysis of the 62 flat-weaves in this collection; the flatweaves are from Iran, Turkey, and the Caucasus. Cootner provides an extensive essay on flatweave production in Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus and on the specific textiles. The second part of the book contains 5 essays: Cootner: Flat-weaves and knotted pile: An historical and structural overview; Bierman: Medieval flatweaves in the Urban Middle East; Beattie: A note on zilu; Wertime: Weft-wrapping in in nomadic and village flat-woven textiles from the Near-East and Central Asia, and Wertime: A guide to flat-woven struct ures. This is volume 1; there was no volume 2., Textile Museum, 1981., 1981, 6, Augsburg: Antique Collectors' Club. Good in Very Good dustjacket; 8.5 x 10 Hardback in dustjacket in Good . condition. Minor highlighting and penciled notes in first few chapters. . Otherwise Very Good.. 1989. Hardcover. Illustrated by 299 color plates, 99 drawings; Extensive illustrations of these Central Asian rugs from auction houses and museums. <br /> <br />"This is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed Oriental Rugs series and it serves as a detailed introduction to the extraordinary range of carpets and rugs made by the nomadic Turkmen tribes who inhabited the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, northeast Iran and the northern frontier region of Afghanistan. Attention has been given to cataloguing and describing the least important as well as the most important weavings, thereby enabling the reader to emerge with a useful knowledge of the history and diversity of Turkmen weaving. The lavish use of color illustrations provides the prospective collector, or anyone wishing to learn more about this complex subject, with an opportunity to study a large number of weavings of the types and qualities most likely to be encountered in galleries and auction houses." -Publisher ; 3.5; 318 pp. ., Antique Collectors' Club, 1989, 2.75, Tauris Academic Studies, 2009. Hardcover. New. 269 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches., Tauris Academic Studies, 2009, 6<

ISBN: 9781845118327

The Qashqa'i nomads are migrant pastoralists. This book documents their difficult livelihoods and lifestyles, their society and culture, and explains how this Turkic-speaking group relate… More...

The Qashqa'i nomads are migrant pastoralists. This book documents their difficult livelihoods and lifestyles, their society and culture, and explains how this Turkic-speaking group relates to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic. Focusing on a group of women, it shows how they adapt to a changing world while retaining tribal values.; Social Sciences, I B Tauris & Co Ltd<

2009, ISBN: 1845118324

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