Last Updated: May 13, 2013
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Benardout, Raymond: A Catalogue of Turkoman and Beluch Weavings from a Bygone Era
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Thompson, Jon: Oriental Carpets From the Tents, Cottages, and Workshops of Asia
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Moshkova, V.G. edited by George W. O'Bannon: Carpets of the People of Central Asia of the Late XIX and XX Centuries
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Fitz Gibbon, Kate and Andrew Hale: Uzbek Embroidery in the Nomadic Tradition: The Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Jourdan, Uwe: Oriental Rugs Volume 5: Turkoman
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Bidder, Hans: Carpets from Eastern Turkestan: Known as Khotan, Samarkand and Kansu Carpets
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Burns, James D.: Antique Rugs of Kurdistan: A Historical Legacy of Woven Art
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Bogoslovskaya, Irina and Larisa Levteeva: Skullcaps of Uzbekistan, 19th-20th Centuries
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ACOR 6: The Exhibitions of ACOR 6: Inclusively Baluch, Rugs of Rare Beauty from Midwest Collections, Warp-Faced Bands
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Bennett, Ian and Aziz Bassoul: Rugs of the Caucasus from Three Private Lebanese Collections (Tapis du Caucase a Travers Trois Collections Libanaises Privees)
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Rippon Boswell: The Lesley and Robert Pinner Collection of Turkmen Rugs
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Burns, James: The Caucasus: Traditions in Weaving
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Bohmer, Harald: Koekboya, Natural Dyes and Textiles: A Colour Journey from Turkey to India and Beyond
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Eiland, Murray L. ed.: A World of Carpets and Textiles
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Pinner, Robert and Murray L. Eiland Jr.: Between the Black Desert and the Red, Turkmen Carpets from the Wiedersperg Collection
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Sommer, John L.: The Kyrgyz and Their Reed Screens
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Fremont, CA 1996
27 color plates 50 photographs 163 pp. 8 x 11.5 Hardback in dustjacket in New condition.
Pioneering English language study of this type of Central Asian yurt decoration using many obscure Russian sources. "Reed Screens - basic furnishings of the Kyrgyz nomad's yurt - are made of tall grass stems, wrapped with dyed but unspun wool fibers, bound together. The art of the decorated reed screen has been raised to its highest level by Central Asian Kyrgyz and Kazak nomads. Nearly unknown here in the west, such reed screens often show the great skill of their master makers. Patterns and motifs resemble nomad flatwoven kilims (for which they may well be precursors), rugs, and felts. Writings of prominent Soviet ethnographers who have studied the Kyrgyz people, their traditional lifestyle, beliefs and customs are included here, translated into English. Fifty archival photographs showing Kyrgyz reed screens from the 'Kirghiz archaeological- ethnographical expedition'- are published here for the first time. Included also are 27 full-page color plates of Kyrgyz reed screens." -Publisher
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