Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Rug Book Shop

Dell / Delta Books, 1969. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Used, good condition, Text block crisp, no internal marks, not owned at any time by a library, spine faded, slight edge wear, corners slightly bumped.

1976. Soft cover. Very Good. Beattie, M.H. Carpets of Central Persia with Special Reference to the Rugs of Kirman. Paper. Used, very good condition, no internal marks, but cover is yellowing and one corner bumped. 1976, 105 p., 85 illus., 11 in color, 26 x 19 cm. A detailed exhibition catalogue of 17th century rug & rug fragments from Central Persia

Firenze / Florence: Bargello Museum, 1983. Soft cover. New. Papeback. New book. 28 p., 13 illus., 3 in color, 21 x l3.5 cm. A small booklet on 5 16th & 17th Ushak & Persian carpets in the Bargello Museum in Florence; the text discusses the use & importing of Oriental rugs into Italy in the 16th century. Text in Italian & English.

Universe, 1965., 1964. Soft cover. Good/Good. Softcover / paperback. Used, good condition, but dust jacket wrinkled. 63 p., 19 illus., 9 in color, 21 x 14 cm. A small introductory book, by a Dutch author. There is also a hardcover version available, at a slightly higher price.

Sagep Ed., Genova, 1993. Hardcover. New/New. Hard, new book, in dust jacket; plastic surface of the back dust jacket is wrinkled. 142 p., 66 illus., 30 in color, 27.5 x 21 cm. Based on an exhibition of rug, tent bands, sacks, felts, suzani from the Russian Ethnographic Museum, St. Peterburg; detailed technical descriptions, including analogous published examples; most are 19th century and provide an interesting look at Turkmen textiles from a major Turkmen collection. Italian / English text.

Antique Collectors Club, 1991. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. new in dust jacket. 208 p., 326 illus., 33 in color, 28.5 x 22.5 cm. One of the questions that can be asked about a rug is "How old is it?". Carbon-14 is one way of providing an answer, although it is good only for older rugs and it provide a range, or ranges of ages. A second way is to look, particularly for older, classic carpets, is to look at depictions of rugs in paintings whose ages are known. This book follows the second way, by looking at Western European paintings from the 1540 to 1700 time period. There are detailed descriptions of designs in the field, borders; this is a scholarly and useful way in determining dates of classic carpets.

1977. Soft cover. New. Paperback / softcover. New book . 52 p., 30 bl & wh illus., 25 x 19 cm. Exhibition catalogue, Dalhousie Art Gallery, of 52 rugs from private collectors & commercial dealers in Nova Scotia & eastern Canada.

Hamlyn, 1969 (1970, 2nd printing). ISBN 0 600 00645 X. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. Used, very good condition, dust jacket good: torn and wear along edges. 123 p., 74 color pl., 28.5 x 20.5 cm. An introductory book, which also mentions Spain, Algeria & Morocco. Most of the plates are of Persian rugs; there are close-up photographs of details but these tend to be out of focus.

Washington International Associates, 1979 reprint of 1964 ed., 1979. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. New book, in dust jacket. , 73 p., 30 color illus., 25 x 19 cm. This is the standard source on this specialized area: Khotan, Kansu & Samarkand rugs. Bidder provides the most thorough analysis of the history and development of rug weaving in this area, the various cultural influences upon this weaving tradition, and the ethnic make-up of the region's population. All subsequent writers give due reference to his pioneering effort to identify the unique characteristics of these rugs. The rugs appear to be mid-19th century. It should be noted, however, that while Bidder lived in China, but it isn't clear that he visited East Turkestan, and it appears most of his rugs were bought from Chinese dealers.

Mysterious Press, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. Used, very good condition, covers shiny, no internal marks, two spine creased but much of the text block is tight.

Penguin, 1962. Soft cover. Good. Softcover. Used, good condition, no internal marks, not ex-library, book is cocked, has slight tears along top and bottom of spine, wear along spine, pages beginning to tan. Original publication date 1925, Penguin edition 1956 reprinted in 1962. Three page introduction on the author. This version has the front cover picture of Mr Craw being threatened by Mastrovin.

HMSO, 1954. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. Good condition in good dust jacket. No internal marks, hinges good, corners not bumped, text block fairly tight, but cover spotted and light foxing on end papers. Dust jacket worn but no tears or chips. 6th impression, 1965.

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin. 1978. volume 36: 4 - 113, 1978. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New book. 7l illus., 5 in color. About 50 of these rugs were donated to the museum from the estate of Charles Hall, one of the two inventory of the Hall-Heroult process, used to make aluminum from aluminum ore. Hall died, quite wealthy as might have been expected, in 1915, so these rugs are 19th century. 4 others came from another donor in 1904 and the other examples in this exhibtion are also 19th century, including a 19th century Caucasian dragon sile flatweave used as wrapping to ship an archeological altar from Pergamon to the Berlin Museum. The rugs are mostly tribal and village. There are 20 Persian, 22 Turkish, 10 Caucasian, 13 Turkmen, and 6 Indian and Chinese. Illustrations are sometimes fuzzy.

Textile Museum. 1953. No Binding. New. Softcover: unbound text and plates in a folder. 128 p., 64 pl., 12 in color. A detailed analysis of the Spanish rugs in the Textile Museum.

Amsterdam, Vereeniging voor Oostersche Tapijtkunde, 1946. No ISBN. Soft cover. Good. Paperback / softcover. Used, good condition: the text block is fairly tight, cover in good shape; the text pages are brown; the plates are printed on glossy paper and are in good shape. 56 p. of text plus 19 bl & wh plates, 19 x 13 cm. Exhibitio n catalogue of 17th - 19th century carpets, mostly Turkish, Caucasian and Persian, from Dutch collections. The text comments about classic carpets and then describes the examples. In Dutch.

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.

Lawrence King. 1995. ISBN: 1856690776, 1995. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book. 184 p., 132 illus., 34.5 x 25 cm. A comprehensive survey of Caucasian weaving, with major focus on flatweaves and utilitarian objects, since the authors argue, based on the Russian literature, that these were more traditional than the piled rugs, many of which were made for the Western European or Russian export market.

Rizzoli, , 1986. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. New in shrink wrap. 1986, 370 p., 170 pl., 160 in color, 26 x 25 cm. This Swiss rug dealer's usual format: brief introduction, then plates with a brief paragraph describing the rug. Rugs are 19th & 20th century mostly; the ones earlier than this are from museums, and mostly were previously published. Large number of plates of commercially available rugs.

Paperback / softcover. Used, very good condition. 1979, 31 p., 32 bl & wh illus., 15 x 23 cm. Exhibition catalogue, University of Colorado Museum, of some of Sarkisian's 19th Caucasian rugs, with one 16th century one, with comments on rugs from these areas.

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 2006. No ISBN, 2006. Soft cover. New. Softcover / paperback. New book. 26 p., 38 color illus., 21.5 x 14 cm. Exhibition catalogue of 38 19th Caucasian rugs from collections of Manger, Newcomer and Thompson; illustrations are very small; brief comments on the rugs; introduction reprinted from Keshishian et al.:The Treasure of the Caucasus.