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Oriental rugs
A comprehensive guide to the history, design and construction of oriental rugs. Oriental Rugs is a comprehensive handbook of 19th- and 20-th century Persian, Turkish, Turkoman, and Caucasian rugs. Carefully designed to serve both the beginner and the veteran rug fancier, it has been call 'superior in its coverage of old and new rugs to any other general publication in recent years.' It is now in print again in this substantially revised and expanded edition. Readers and collectors will welcome the new features, which include many more color and black-and-white illustrations, much updated and rewritten text, redrawn maps, an enlarged glossary, and an index. One of the most valuable additions is Murray Eiland's expanded discussion of Baluchi and Caucasian rugs, based on his recent trip to central Asian. Here he spent several months traveling to villages and areas that few if any rug...
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