Antique Oriental Carpets Rugs - Types Regions Techniques / Scarce In-Depth Book

Description

The over 100 superb color photographs, in-depth captions, maps, and accompanying text combine to make this an invaluable source of reference and a means of immediate identification of antique Oriental carpets and rugs.
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
by Fabio Formenton, Hamlyn, NY, 1970/1972.
This text “is divided into five chapters corresponding to the most important carpet-weaving centers:  Turkey, the Caucasus; Persia (Iran); Turkenstan and Afghanistan; China and India.  Each carpet listed is described in detail technically and aesthetically, and an assessment is made of its quality.  The book also contains an introduction dealing with the historical background, the materials and methods of weaving, and the main designs and motifs, as well as descriptions of nine outstanding historic carpets.  In a final chapter on purchase and maintenance, the author gives advice to collectors who may want to make practical use of these works of art.  …Anyone who has ever been lured by the intricacy of the patterns, the skill of the weavers, the touch of the luxurious pile, will find plenty of interest in these pages.”
7.5” x 10.5” hardback with dust cover in very good condition (some red underling in book).  252 pages.
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