Rugs & Carpets

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Featuring over 250 colour photographs, many specially commissioned, Rugs S Carpets is a beautifully designed and highly informative book that expiores and explains the world of rugs and carpets.
Understanding weavings
Rugs & Carpets begins by tracing the development of carpet-making and introduces the immense rangé of rugs and carpets produced since 1800. Being able to identify rugs and carpets is an important part of understanding them and a useful illustrated chart shows how to decipher weavings from different countries. There are alsó helpful explanatory diagrams and photographs that illustrate the different techniques involved in carpet-making, as well as information on designs, styles and motifs.
Carpet-making regions
Rugs and carpets have been woven throughout the world for many centuries, and this book journeys to all the major carpet-making regions, including the Caucasus, Turkestan, Turkey, Persia, India, China, Tibet, Europe, North Africa and North America. Handsome... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Featuring over 250 colour photographs, many specially commissioned, Rugs S Carpets is a beautifully designed and highly informative book that expiores and explains the world of rugs and carpets.
Understanding weavings
Rugs & Carpets begins by tracing the development of carpet-making and introduces the immense rangé of rugs and carpets produced since 1800. Being able to identify rugs and carpets is an important part of understanding them and a useful illustrated chart shows how to decipher weavings from different countries. There are alsó helpful explanatory diagrams and photographs that illustrate the different techniques involved in carpet-making, as well as information on designs, styles and motifs.
Carpet-making regions
Rugs and carpets have been woven throughout the world for many centuries, and this book journeys to all the major carpet-making regions, including the Caucasus, Turkestan, Turkey, Persia, India, China, Tibet, Europe, North Africa and North America. Handsome maps depict the major production areas of each region and the author, Andrew Middleton, closely examines rugs and carpets made by village and city workshops, as well as tribal weavings. Rugs and carpets are important elements of the cultural heritage of many countries and this book examines how they are traditionally used, from the practical, as sturdy saddle bags and durable floor and wall coverings, to the spiritual, as part of the rituals of prayer.
Patterns and motifs
Styles, colours and patterns of rugs and carpets vary throughout the carpet-making world. The symbolic and abstract motifs found are illustrated throughout the book using numerous colour photographs, of both full-size weaves and carefully selected details.
Care and buying tips
Buying and caring for your rug or carpet are major considerations. At the end of the book is a section on where (and where not) to buy rugs and carpets and how to buy at auction or from a dealer. The author alsó provides useful advice on care and restoration, plus tips on display. Vissza