Islam Oriental Carpets Weavings - Making Types Techniques / Scarce Book

Description

Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, this early out-of-print book provides an in-depth pictorial survey of Islam carpets and weavings.  A comprehensive text supplements the illustrations and covers the history and evolution of production of Islamic textiles.
THE WARP AND WEFT OF ISLAM – Oriental Carpets and weavings from Pacific Northwest Collections
by Jere Bacharach and Irene Bierman, The Henry Art Gallery, WA, 1978.
This comprehensive book covers by chapter:  One the Making of Carpets; Islamic Textiles and Urban Life: The ottoman Turks; Some Notes on Travel to the Caucasus: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; America and the Oriental Carpet: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Animal Skin Prayer Rugs; Oriental Rugs of the Pacific Northwest 1850-1930; Notes of a Collector; Lenders; Plates; Plate Descriptions.  The in-depth descriptions describe size, warp, weft, pile, front, back and side techniques, and a terse description.  This is an invaluable reference for the serious collector, dealer, or historian of antique Islamic textiles.
10.9” x 8.3” softback in good condition.  128 pages.
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