[PDF] A Century Of Carpet And Rug Making In America eBook

Author : Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780364140246

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Excerpt from A Century of Carpet and Rug Making in America: 1825-1925 Hieroglyphic representations of carpets and weavers have been found in Egypt, where began the world's first known civilization, yet many designs always present in Turkish and Persian carpets, even down to modern examples, can be found in the carvings of the temples of Yucatan, temples that were constructed when Egypt was an undiscovered waste-land, and Babylon a wooded spot between two rivers. With the exception of the myths and the more enduring representations in stone on the rock-cut tombs of Beni Hasan, and a few frail fragments of tapestry occasionally unearthed from Egyp tian ruins, the first widespread knowledge of the carpet came from the East - from Persia, from India, and from Turkey. The organized manufacture of Oriental carpets is a comparatively new phase of the industry. For centuries they were wovenin the homes by domestic labor. The women of the tribes gathered around the looms while the head woman made a rough design upon the ground and apportioned the wool, sometimes chanting in weird singsong the number and the color of the stitches. It was the task of the men to make the dyes, to gather alizarin roots, seeds, herbs, nuts, and berries, from which natural sources literally thousands of shades of one color could be derived. With these simple materials they produced rare shades ranging from the poignant red of spilt wine to the delicate pink of a faded rose, from the pastel green of the spring's first birch tree to the living green of the laurel leaf - colors which We know not in our day, like the undiscovered purple made from Mediterranean shellfish, which was probably a glowing crimson, and was the chosen color of royalty. The earliest known carpets of the Orient possessed a flat surface, rather than the velvety face of the cut or loop-pile. Such were the carpets of Soumaki*, a no longer existing Khanate west of Shirvan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alexander N. Cook
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2020-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354022012

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Author : Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2014-02
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ISBN : 9781294673828

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Author : Alexander N Cook
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2015-02-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781297021015

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Author : Cynthia Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351563521

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Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the avant-garde, this study demonstrates that they were a significant part of the artistic production of many artists engaged in modernist experimentation. Cynthia Fowler discusses the efforts of Ralph Pearson and of Zoltan and Rosa Hecht to establish modernist hooked rug industries in the 1920s, uncovering a previously undocumented history. The book includes a consideration of the rural workers used to create the modernist narrative of the hooked rug, as cottage industries were established throughout the rural Northeast and South to serve the ever increasing demand for hooked rugs by urban consumers. Fowler closely examines institutional enterprises that highlighted and engaged the modernist hooked rugs, such as key exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1930s and '40s. This study reveals the fluidity of boundaries among art, craft and design, and the profound efforts of a devoted group of modernists to introduce the general public to the value of modern art.

Author : Fritz Langauer
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Rugs, Oriental
ISBN : 9781898113638

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The handmade rug industry has gone through a revolution in the last twenty-five years, and no one is better placed to explain how and why than Fritz Langauer and Ernst Swietly, who have been buying, making, collecting and writing about rugs for over fifty years. Rugs are now being made in colours and designs unimagined just a few decades ago. This new book is the only title available that shows how carpet making has changed in all traditional rug making nations as well as demonstrating through images of rugs in interior settings how the style and use of rugs has changed. Carpets carry many unspoken narratives about peoples and places - this new book reveals some of these for the first time thanks to the first-hand experience of the authors in the souks and bazars of the Middle East. AUTHORS: Ernst Anton Swietly grew up in a family that had just one single carpet. It was rolled out only once a year, during the Christmas holidays, and on each 7 January, the carpet was rolled up and hidden behind a box until next Christmas. Since then, for Ernst, carpets have been a symbol of peaceful, warm, cosy family get-togethers. Later on, Ernst A. Swietly - a journalist for fifty years - travelled the carpet-producing countries of the world discovering the secrets of handmade weaving and their design principles. This is how he met Fritz Langauer, and they realised it was time to write a book on the carpet world of the 21st century. Fritz Langauer is the son of the businessman Friedrich Langauer who, with his cousin, Adolf Böhm, founded Adil Besim OHG immediately after the Second World. As one of the sons of the two founders, Fritz Langauer joined the company in 1957. With its five branches, a carpet laundry and repair workshop, it developed over the years to become one of the largest department stores in Europe. SELLING POINTS: * For the first time, a lavishly illustrated book shows how traditional handmade rugs and carpets have become vehicles for contemporary trends and used in interior design and home decoration * The authors' work in journalism and rug production over the last fifty years equips them with the experiences of the travel writer and the specialist knowledge of leaders in the global rug market * The developments in the weaving industry in India, Iran, Turkey, China, Turkmenistan, Morocco, Pakistan and Afghanistan are reviewed as well as the historical and cultural context for change in a book that shines a light on the contemporary rug market in the 21st century 350 colour and 20 b/w photographs