Customer Review: Caveat: You won't know a thing about rugs until you start to shop around, until you start touching them. You'll have to look at the knots, at the foundation and the edges, and run your hands over the pile. You'll need to feel the difference between a silk weave and a wool weave. That said, this book... more info
Customer Review: This is a comprehensive, well-researched, and lavishly illustrated guide to Oriental carpet design. Despite this, the book is actually rather limited in its coverage: the vast majority of the rugs the author describes are from the mid-20th century. For various reasons - including the disappearance... more info
Customer Review: This is a beautiful book with careful drawings and magnificent color photographs. It is a serious scholarly work. An ideal text for a course on Oriental Carpets.
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I like rug books -- my wife and I went to a rug show
and came home with almost $600 (!!) worth -- in fact, I sprained my
back getting them out to the car. This book was, without question,
the best deal of the bunch -- you might... more info
Customer Review: I had been looking for some new ideas for needlepoint cushions/pillows and happened upon this quite by chance -- it is a GEM! The author must have spent hours and hours charting the designs, and I've been able to have great fun using my own colors (NB there are great designs for using up one's... more info
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