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Oriental Carpet Design: A Guide to Traditional Motifs, Patterns and Symbols
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P R J Ford
In this review, the author draws upon his experience in the trade, in order to demonstrate how to recognize the different structural and design features of oriental rugs and carpets. All the types made throughout the Orient - from the Balkans to Peking - are grouped here, not by place of manufacture but by design, illuminating the history of each ...
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Rugs to Riches: Guide to Buying Oriental Rugs
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Caroline Bosly
This is an authoritative, lively and eminently practical guide for people who want to learn the do's and don'ts of choosing handmade oriental rugs. Caroline Bosly, one of the foremost rugbrokers in the world, describes the various types of rugs and their origins, explains the difference between buying new and antique rugs, and tells you how to buy ...
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Oriental Rugs Today
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Emmett Eiland
Demystifying a confusing and intimidating subject, Oriental Rugs Today is the first book devoted exclusively to new pieces. It discusses issues of dye and finish, looks country by country at examples from every major contemporary source, and profiles the artisans who revived the use of handspun wool and natural dyes. Written for both aficionado ...
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Illustrated Buyer's Guide to Oriental Carpets
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J R Azizollahoff
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Oriental Rugs,: A Complete Guide
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Charles W Jacobsen
Provides the novice with advice on the selection and care of Oriental rugs as well as identifying the rugs of each nation.
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Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide - The Classic Reference
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Murray L Eiland, Jr.
Murray Eiland's Oriental Rugs has long been the standard introduction to oriental rugs. The authors have extended the range of the book by incorporating new material on Chinese and Indian rugs, and the text has been completely revised. The plates of all the illustrations have been remade, and many of the rugs shown are new to this edition. The ...
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Making Miniature Oriental Rugs & Carpets
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Meik McNaughton, Ian McNaughton
Aimed at dolls' house enthusiasts, keen needlepoint stitchers and connoisseurs of fine carpets, this collection of miniaturized oriental carpet designs contains 25 designs shown in full colour photographs and 1:12 scale colour charts. They are based on authentic oriental rugs and carpets from Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan and Central ...
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Oriental Carpets in Miniature: Charted Designs for Needlepoint or What You Will
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Frank M Cooper, Linda Collier Ligon (Editor)
The intricate patterning and rich hues of tribal rugs from Turkey, the Caucasus, and Iran have attracted collectors for decades. Twenty-four different designs from these rich traditions, carefully reduced in scale and accurately charted, make handsome small take-along projects. Designs can be worked on fine, medium or heavy canvas. The patterns ...
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The Bulfinch Guide to Carpets: How to Identify, Classify, and Evaluate Antique Oriental Carpets and Rugs
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Enza Milanesi
Antique Oriental carpets are objects of fascination the world over. This richly textured, lavishly illustrated guide enables the reader to recognize the stylistic characteristics of a wide variety of carpets and to appreciate more fully the beauty and history of each. The first part of the book charts the development of carpets as objects of both ...
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More Miniature Oriental Rugs & Carpets
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Meik McNaughton, Ian McNaughton
This volume presents a selection of 24 detailed colour patterns for the 1/12th scale dolls' house enthusiast.
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Oriental Carpets
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Jon Thompson
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The oriental rug lexicon
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Peter F Stone
The baffling array of technical rug terms for oriental carpets are here made accessible to the beginner, whilst research is aided by precise identifications of regions and ethnic groups, and explanations of designs, motifs and symbols associated with pile rugs and flatweaves.
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Book of Oriental carpets and rugs
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Ian Bennett
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Weavers, Merchants, and Kings: The Inscribed Rugs of Armenia
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Edmund P. Pillsbury, Murray L. Eiland, Lucy Der Manuelian
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Oriental Rugs: The Collector's Guide to Selecting, Identifying, and Enjoying New and Vintage Oriental Rugs
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George O'Bannen, G G O'Bannon, George W O'Bannon
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Sovereign Carpets: Unknown Masterpieces from European Collections
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Edoardo Concaro (Editor), Alberto Levi (Editor)
The book illustrates the extraordinary and very ancient art of rugs with a relevant selection of Oriental rugs--from the oldest to the ones produced in the late 19th century--belonging to European private collections, besides a set of rugs coming from the Russian ethnographic museum of St. Petersburg. The fruit of long research within the rich ...
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Oriental Rugs, Care and Repair
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Majid Amini
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Oriental Rugs: A Buyer's Guide
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Lee Allane
A guide to modern oriental rugs, explaining the techniques, materials, and tools used in making them, and discussing quality, design, color schemes, and resale values.
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Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern
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Walter Hawley
Best general survey of all aspects: styles and periods, manufacture, uses, identification, etc. Ninety-six illustrations, 11 in color.
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Affordable Oriental Rugs: The Buyer's Guide to Rugs from China, India, Pakistan, and Romania
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Janice Summers
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Oriental rugs
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John Kimberly Mumford
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Oriental rugs and carpets
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Stanley Reed
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Oriental Rugs of the Silk Route: Culture, Process, and Selection
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John Gregorian
The Silk Route was an ancient caravan route that began at the Golden Horn in present-day Istanbul and extended through the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to China and its seaports. It was through this caravan route, perhaps as long ago as the fourth century a.d. that goods of European manufacturers were introduced to remote villages ...
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Antique oriental rugs and carpets
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Philip Bamborough
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Check Points on How to Buy Oriental Rugs
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Charles W Jacobsen
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