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Catalogue from the Washington ICOC Exhibitions
A WORLD OF CARPETS & TEXTILES
Edited by Murray L. Eiland, Jr.,
plus contributing authors
290 pp., 335 colour plates, notes, technical analyses
Hardbound
Was US$110
Now US$45
A sparkling book illustrating the many exhibitions of the 10th ICOC in Washington, DC in 2003. The weighty volume contains: rare Spanish and Mamluk carpets from the Textile Museum Collection, essays by Carol Bier; a large section of Kaitag embroideries from the Caucasus, essay by Susan Scollay; Central & Southern Zagros Mountain weavings, essay by John Wertime, and Khorjin & Mafrash of NW Persia and Transcaucasia, essay by Wendel Swan. Essays by Hoffmeister, Tsareva and Crosby lead a special exhibition of The Turkmen Ensi and Traditional Textiles of Uzbekistan are supplemented with essays by Makhamova, Mirsadiyeva, Babanazarova and Tsareva.
Catalogues from the Philadelphia ICOC Exhibitions
Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies
ORIENTAL CARPET AND TEXTILE STUDIES
VOLUME 5, PART 1
(THE PHILADELPHIA PAPERS)
Was US$65
NOW US$20
This impressive book contains selected conference papers. Edited by Murray Eiland and Robert Pinner, the new, larger format and abundant use of color illustrations make this a useful and important reference.
ORIENTAL CARPET AND TEXTILE STUDIES V
(THE SALTING CARPETS)
VOLUME 5, PART 2
Was US$65
NOW US$20
This compendium of academic sessions discusses a long-controversial subject for the origins of the so-called "Salting carpets" and makes an important contribution to settling the question. "...serves to underline the importance of combining aesthetic and chromatic considerations with archival research...(Michael Franses') paper is painstakingly researched (with) and illustrated catalogue, structural analyses, C-14 dating and translations...of the inscriptions." Susan Day, HALI #110, May-June 2000, pp 74-75.