By dividing carpets into four categories - tribal, cottage industry, workshop and court, the author shows the reader how to begin to trace the likely origins of carpets, to understand how they are made, and to appreciate how and why patterns differ. This approach, which depends not on learning names, but on a much broader understanding, draws the reader into a world in which carpet-weaving is a way of life, closely bound up with centuries of tradition. Since 1979 the author has travelled extensively in Turkey, Iran and Central Asia, studying tribal life and culture.
- ISBN10 0712625011
- ISBN13 9780712625012
- Publish Date 20 October 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage
- Imprint Barrie & Jenkins
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English