Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Rug Book Shop

Galeria Akka, Roma. n.d. (1991).. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. 169 p., 16 color pl., 24 x 21 cm. The extensive text describes Turkish Kurds and their kilims: textile construction, design, function; the examples are complex design kilims with attributions to specific areas in Turkey. In Italian.

Klinkhardt and Bierman, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Used, very good condition. No dust jacket (none issued?). 48 p., 18 illus., 15 in color, 19 x 13 cm. A pocket-sized introductory book on Caucasian rugs, with 19th century examples. In German.

ICOC, 2011. ISBN 978-1-898-43-0. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. 200 p., circa 400 illus., nearly all in color, 29 x 21.5 cm. Papers: Eiland: Textile cultures of Syria: Palmyra, Mamluks and Bedouin; Denny: Beyond the carpet design revolution: perspectives on 15th-century carpet history; Atlihan: End finishes of Topkapi Palace Museum prayer rugs; Froom: Design and influence in the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Spanish pomegranate carpet; Sherrill: Ghost story: vestiges of a vanished Turkish carpet design seen in some 16th and 17th centur y European embroidered and pile carpets; Krody: Tulips to roses: changing trends in Ottoman embroidery; Erber: Large, larger, largest...large medallion suzanis in German collections; Scollay: Hunting imagery in Kaitag embroideries from Daghestan: o ri gins, influences, and evolution; Hann: The Pazyryk carpet: a stylistic appraisal of the deep-frozen treasure from Kurgan Number Five in the High Altai; Nockert: The Marby rug; Sabatini: Polonaise carpets in… Read More

1999. Paperback. New. Paperback. New book. 95 p., 54 color illus., 22 x 12 cm. A book to go with an exhibition of tapestries, rugs, and vestments from the St. Mark Basilica in Venice. The tapestries go back to the 1400's; there are 5 Persian rugs, which predate 1637. In Italian.

Perenial Library, 1980. 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover. Used, very good condition, covers shiny, text block tight, pages beginning to tan, one spine crease, slight wear along edges. NOT ex-library, and no internal writing or marks.

Vallentine Mitchell, 2012 ISBN 10: 0853038341 ISBN 13: 9780853038344, 2012. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. New book. 286 p., 73 illus., 56 in color, 24 x 16 cm. An extended analysis of a 15th century Viscaya carpet, with sections on the role of Jews and converted Jews in carpet production, the possibility that the original owner of the carpet was of Jewish ancestry, and the extent of Jewish symbols woven into the carpet design.

John Nelson Bergstrom Art Center and Museum, Neenah, 1979 No ISBN. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. 16 p., 35 bl. & wh. photos, 28 x 20 cm.A exhibition catalogue, of 35 pieces, showing the types of rugs to be found in a localized area; about half are Persian, mostly tribal and including bag faces; about a third are Caucasian. The photos are clear & there are technical descriptions of these 19th & 20th century rugs.

Ben J. Fernandes, Singapore, 1998. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. 8 p., 11 illus., 9 in color, 28 x 21 cm. A monographlet on the 5 examples of this type of rug, inspired by one sold at Sotheby's for $148,000 in 1998. The booklet describes all 5, and summarizes what is know about their prec ursors. Autographed by the author.

Textile Museum, n.d. (1972) No ISBN. Soft cover. As New. Softcover. Used, as new condition. 7 p., no illus., 23 x 15 cm. A typed gallery guide to an exhibition of Navajo blankets at the Textile Museum in 1972; the text provides a history of the weaving tradition of the Navajo; there is no list of the blankets exhibited.

Textile Museum 1973. No ISBN. Soft cover. Good. Softcover. Used, good condition, paper beginning to brown. 16 p., 36 bl & wh illus., 28 x 21.5 cm. Catalogue from the Textile Museum, of an exhibition of rugs from the members of the New York, Washington DC, Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh rug societies. The descriptions are mostly of the colors of the rugs which are 19th century village and city rugs.

Textile Museum, 1972.. Soft cover. Good. Softcover / paperback. Used, good condition. 63 p., 36 pl., 26 in color, 28 x 22 cm. Exhibition catalogue, Textile Museum, of Turkish rugs, mostly village.

Arsenale, Venezia, 1989, 1989. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book. 144 p., 127 illus., 119 in color, 30.5 x 22.5 cm. An introductory guide to Persian carpets, with sections on symbolism, Safavid carpets (include a number of Polonaise carpets), and then areas in Iran; the examples are 19th a nd 20 th century and, while there are some tribal and village examples, tend to be city rugs; the modern examples are from Cohen and Besim. In Italian.

Sarajevo, 1971. Soft cover. Near Fine. Paperback. used, near fine condition, crisp, no internal marks, one corner, small stains on front cover.

Bernheimer Fine Arts. n.d. (1987) . No ISBN, 1987. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. No date (1987) One folded sheet, 2 color illus., 30 x 19 cm. A number of 17th century carpets were exhibited in the 1878 Paris exhibition and were labelled as being Polish (or Polonaise). By 1910, it was known that these rugs were actually Persian. This dealer's brochure illustrates, describes and discusses a 17/18th century Polish rug, reallly made in Poland and a 17th centuryPolonaise carpet, really made in Iran. The brochure includes a copy of a letter from Werner Grote-Hasenbalg stating that this Polonaise rug was given to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp in 1633 by a Persian embassy, and was being sold by Grote-Hasenbalg to Heinrich Wulff, who in turn sold it to the Møller family. The rug has been well published, by Wulff & Pope. The Polish was probably produced in Brody (Poland) and published in Kendrick & Tattersall & Erdmann; it is the pair to one in the Polish royal… Read More

Oslo: Sverre Mortensen Forlag a/s. 2nd Edition Revised . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Used, good condition, No dust jacket. 448 photographs. The bookplate printed on the inside cover has in ink " With Complements A Beretsen" (we think; the writing is ornate); no other internal marks. Edges of covers are worn. On several pages there seems to have been glue spots which originally held the pages together; when the pages were separated small bits (circles up to 3/8 inch) of one page were torn off, Hinges good. This is the second revised edition; no publication date but post 1931 (this date is mentioned in the text) and before WW II.

Textile Museum, Washington D.C., 1976. Soft cover. Good. Paper. Used, good condition. 43 p., 45 illus., 15.5 x 23 cm. Examples come from collections of various Rug Society members; the plates are small & tend to lack contrast. Technical descriptions.

Textile Museum, 1974. No ISBN. Soft cover. New. Softcover / Paperback. New book. 39 p., 23 black and white illustrations., 15.5 x 23 cm. Brief exhibition catalogue from the Textile Museum, with Turkish, Caucasian, Persian and Turkmen prayer rugs; descriptions are informative.

Textile Museum, 1975., 1975. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. 211 pages, many black and white illustrations, 28 x 21 cm. Scholarly articles on pre-Columbian South American textiles, on middle and north American textiles, on textile preservation, on Chinese and Buyin textiles and on late antique and mediaeval textiles from Egypt.

Museum fur Volkerkunde, 2008. ISBN3-85497-145-1, 2008. Soft cover. New. Softcover / paperback. New book. 256 p., 244 illus., 207 in color, 27 x 21 cm. Exhibition catalogue of the Foitl collection of straps and belts, mostly Iranian, Afghan and Turkoman, but also a few from Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas. T he text describes the weaving techniques used to make these and has notes on examples from specific geographic areas. In German.

Society for Ethnomusicology. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Used, fine condition. Contains the loose plastic 33 1/3 rpm insert to go with the article by George List: The Reliability of Transcription.