Oriental Rugs

This monumental reference work-long awaited by collectors and scholars-fills animportant gap in the available literature on oriental rugs. Lavishly illustrated withover 1000 photographs and drawings, it offers clear and precise definitions for therug and textile terms in use across a broad swath of the globe-from Morocco toTurkey, Persia, the Caucasus region, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indiaand China. Covering priceless museum-quality rug traditions as well as moderncenters of production, Oriental Rugs draws on classical scholarship as well ascurrent terminology in use among producers and traders in these areas today. Itfocuses primarily on the rich hand-knotting and hand-weaving traditions of the NearEast and Central Asia, but also includes some examples of Scandinavian andNative American weavings.