Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands
$45.54
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2015
Summary
Celebrates the earliest history of the Islamic world’s great textile traditions through fifty beautiful carpets and fragments. A wave of these beautiful textiles has reached the West since the turn of the 21st century, and here they are divided into variants featuring birds, mammals, and mythological creatures, which retain their glowing colors and lively charm.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500970553 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0500970556 |
| Author: | Friedrich Spuhler |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 810g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 275mm |
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Critics Review
‘The long awaited work is finally here … fills substantial gaps in the early history of knotted rugs’ - Carpet Collector
Friedrich Spuhler
Formerly a curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, Dr Friedrich Spuhler is the author of numerous books on Islamic textiles and carpets, including Carpets from Islamic Lands and Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands.
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