Titles starting with B from The Rug Book Shop

Mohtashem Tappeti Antichi, Milano, 2000. Softcover. New book. 39 p., 16 color illus., 29.5 x 21.5 cm. An exhibition catalogue from Mohtashem, Milano, of 16 attractive Northwest Persian rugs, from the 19th century. The text describes, in two pages, the area; brief descriptions of each of. the rugs. In Italian, with a separate English translation of the introduction.. ... more information

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Sorgato, 2007. ISBN 88-902228-2-4. Hardcover. New Booko. 225 p., 104 color illus., 30 x 24 cm. Exhibition catalogue, Sorgato, with brief essays by Shaffer, Cole, and Mallary; most of the book consists of the plates, in good color, of the 100 examples, with brief comments on each. . Technical analysis, but not with knot counts.. ... more information

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Basha's Oriental Rugs and Textiles, n.d. (1998), no ISBN. Softcover. New book. 87 p., 40 bl & wh illus., 28 x 21.5 cm. A dealer's exhibition catalogue of 40 Baluch rugs; brief text describing each rug, with technical analyses and references to similar ones. The reproduction is by xerox and the contr. ast is poor.. ... more information

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1996, first edition.. Hard, New book. 152 p., 63 color illus., 28.5 x 22.5 cm. 10 pages of text, including prefaces, with tantalizing information; most of the book, however, consists of plates, in good color, of good Baluch & related rugs & bags. Technical analyses; bibl. iography. There is also a second edition, with a different preface.. ... more information

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Truman Talley Books / Plume. 1997. ISBN: 0525938656. Paperback / softcover. Used, very good condition.. ... more information

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Phaidon, 1965. Revised, enlarged edition. Hardcover. Used, very good, in very good dust jacket. 1965, revised, enlarged, ed., Phaidon, 194 p., 150 illus., 14 in color, 31 x 26 cm. Articles by Stenton, Wormald, Digby, Mann, Nevinson, Brown, Bertran, and Gibbs-Smith on this famous tapestr. y, its inscriptions, its history, and on the techniques with which it was made, what it illustrates about arms and armour, costumes, and architecture. This is one of the good books on this tapestry. . ... more information

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Doubleday. 2005 ISBN 0-385-51483-2. Hardcover. Used, fine condition: text block tight, covers shiny, no internal marks, looks unread.. ... more information

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University of California Press, 1963, 1971 copyrights. ISBN 0520021010. Softcover / paperback. Used, good condition.. ... more information

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undated reprint of 1914 edition.. Softcover. Used, as new. A reprint of this early booklet; the text analyzes 4 17th & 18th century prayer rugs from the author's collection; comments on color, designs, other examples, translation of inscriptions; the flavor of the text is scholarl. y. In German. ... more information

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Scorpion, London 1986 ISBN:0905906535. Hardcover. New book. Boxed. 48 p., 14 color pl., 30.5 x 23 cm. 14 examples of antique silk rugs: Kum Kapu, Persian & Indian; the text is not very useful and the book is mostly of interest to collectors of every book on Oriental rugs or of silk, com. plex-design floral rugs. . ... more information

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Adraskand, 1983. no ISBN. Softcover / paperback. New book. 1983, 93 p., 40 color illus., 28 x 21.5 cm. This is a very good book on Baluch rugs; the rugs are interesting; good color; the text makes an ambitious attempt at attributing specific Baluchi rugs to specific tribes. .. ... more information

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Self-published, 2008.. Hardcover. New book. 626 p., 458 color illus., fig., 30.5 x 21.5 cm. A very large book on Baluch and other textiles, organized by designs, from triangles and squares through horns through gols to floral designs. The focus in on Baluch and Timur. i rugs, animal trappings, salt and other bags, with examples of other areas in Persia, the Caucasus and Tibet for contrast in the design elements. Illustrations include backs and details of the designs. In German / English. . ... more information

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Stettler, 1993. No ISBN. Softcove / paperback. New book. 53 p., 22 illus., 21 x 15 cm. Dealer's little booklet on Belouch & Afghan rugs, with a discussion of construction methods of knotted & flatwoven examples, Belouch tribal groups, use of textiles, design elements. In G. erman. Illustrations lack contrast. No ISBN.. ... more information

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Wesel, 1991. Paper. New book. 240 p., 282 color illus., 29.5 x 21 cm. A detailed book on these sacks, with discussion of their role in nomadic life, and distinguishing features of the sacks of the various tribal groups. In German, with English titles on the ill. ustrations; separate 6 p. booklet with an English summary.. ... more information

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Frauenknecht. 1990. NO ISBN. Paperback. New book. 1990, 48 p., 41 color illus., 29.5 x 21 cm. An exhibition of 41 19th century bag faces from the Bach collection; they are tribal, mostly Shahsavan, but with a few Kurd, Qashqa'i, and Afshar. The colors are good.. ... more information

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Mira, 1990. ISBN 978-0-7783-2633-4. Softcover / paperback. Used, good condition.. ... more information

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Ballantine, 2003. ISBN 978-0-345-45074-6. Softcover / paperback. Used, very good condition. ... more information

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University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976. No ISBN. Paperback. New book.. ... more information

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1999. Paper. New. 144 p., 100 illus in color. This is the catalogue of the Wedersperg Collection of Turkmen rugs in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.. ... more information

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Johnson Publishing, 1990.. Softcover. New book. 98 p.,26 illus., 10 in color, 23 x 15 cm. Exhibition catalogue from the University of Colorado Museum of 19th century Navajo, Pueblo, and colonial Spanish weavings. The text describes the textiles, with occasional comment by. Joel Ben Wheat, and has also a usefull chapter on Wheat's activities with the museum, and the type of information he collected about weavings, which serves as guide to documenting individual textiles.. ... more information

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