[PDF] Hand Woven Carpets Oriental And European eBook

Author : Sarah B. Sherrill
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Filled with hundreds of gorgeous examples, this book is a comprehensive study of European and American carpets and rugs from the Middle Ages to the present day. The rich and inventive tradition of European and American carpets continues to inspire artists, designers, and decorators, while collectors and historians increasingly value carpets as important works of art. In this comprehensive volume, Sarah Sherrill examines Western carpet design and production from the Middle Ages to the present, in styles that range from magnificent palatial creations to delightful folk designs. With hundreds of dazzling illustrations, Sherrill's authoritative text includes chapters on Moorish weavers and the golden age of carpets in Spain; the exquisite carpets of the Savonnerie, Aubusson, and Beauvais in France; productions from Moorfields, Exeter, and Axminster in England; the intriguing but little-studied rugs of Eastern European countries; the charming and resourceful rugs of America; and an important chapter on modern designs that offers an extensive survey of rugs created by leading artists and architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sherrill's stimulating text, based on years of research, brims with interesting new findings, not only on the history and design of these works, but also technological developments that had an often unrecognized effect on rug design and production. Supplementing the hundreds of reproductions of carpets are many views of the lavish rooms for which they were designed, as well as brilliant watercolor carpet designs, technical drawings clarifying weave and knot structures, and maps, making this an indispensable resource for historians, collectors, and anyone interested in beautiful furnishings and textiles. Sarah B. Sherrill, an authority on Western and Eastern carpets and rugs, has published many articles on the subject over the last two decades. She is on the faculty of The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts in New York and has taught in the graduate program in the history of decorative arts at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design in New York. She is editor in chief of The Bard Graduate Center's journal Studies in the Decorative Arts and was an editor for over twenty years at the magazine Antiques. 400 illustrations

Author : Albert Frank Kendrick
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
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This book is one of the very few to cover not only the great hand-woven rugs of the East, but those of Europe as well. After a short historical consideration on the origins and diffusion of hand-woven carpets, the authors consider the carpets made in the different traditions of Persia, India, China, Turkey, the Caucasus, Western Europe and England. Hundreds of illustrating examples from the fifteenth century on, along with the authors' lucid explanations of color, knot and motif differences, will enable you to differentiate between carpets of these varying traditions with little or no trouble. A second section of the book covers the technical aspects of carpet making: knotting, weaving, materials, dimensions and shape, dyeing and design. There are also most helpful chapters on purchasing carpets, what you need to know about prices, how to group and identify them, and how to take care of your carpets once you have them home. - Back cover.

Author : Cornelia Bateman Faraday
Publisher : ACC Distribution
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Carpets
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A fascinating account, written in the late 1920s and now with an additional 100 colour plates. Includes the history and development of carpet making skills in all the major European countries and America and contains many important contemporary Art Deco designer rugs.