London: George Allen and Unwin, 1979. 77 color plates. GWO 1402. A useful monograph on carpets from the Caucasus. Most examples show what was available on the market in the late 1970s. More
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. 43 color plates 71 black and white plates 32 figures. Scholarly with English, German and French essays. "An extremely rare and conspicuous find of oriental riding costumes in the late antique necropolis of Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt) brought together a number of specialists piecing together their... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. 113 color plates 76 black and white. Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalog of 8th to 15th century silk textiles. More
Basel: Parvis Tanavoli, 1985. 24 color plates, 38 black and white. GWO 2148. The best produced book on Persian Lion Rugs by this author. Numerous black and white photographs of lions in other media including bronzes and ceramics. More
Washington D.C. The Textile Museum, 1987. 32 color plates 170 black and white. GWO 2412. The most important book on Persian textiles published in English in the last 50 years. Textile Museum exhibition catalog of Persian rug and textile patterns. Essays include "Textiles and Society" by Carol Bier; "Image and... More
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Munich: Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Fred Jahn, 1989. 39 monochrome plates 5 figures 1 map. Traveling exhibition catalog of woven wicker mats from the Mbole of the Congo. German text. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1997. 152 color illustrations of 84 coats. Scarce. The Kuwata collection of these heavy cotton coats from the Edo to Taisho eras. Many designs were inspired by the tattoos popular with firemen prior to the ban in 1872. Text in English and Japanese. More
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Lyons: Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens, 2005. 10 color and 102 black and white illustrations. Includes the English articles: "The Development of the Loom and its Mechanisms: Experiments with Chinese Warp-Faced Compound Weaves" by Keiko Kobayashi "Hispano-Muslim Textiles: A Technical and Analytical Study" by Angela Arteaga, et al. "Juhta... More
Vienna: Feichtner and Mizrahi Fine Arts, 2003. 46 color plates. Important study of these flatwoven rugs from Eastern Europe and their migration to Anatolia. Most examples are from the Stöbe collection. Text in English and German. [SORB A-513]. More
Augsburg: Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. 299 color plates, 99 drawings. Extensive illustrations of these Central Asian rugs from auction houses and museums. "This is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed Oriental Rugs series and it serves as a detailed introduction to the extraordinary range of carpets and rugs made... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2005. 57 color plates 96 figures 3 tables. "This richly-illustrated volume examines the remarkable Kashmiri shawls of the Walter Koelz Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. Part I presents the history, production, and forms and ornamentation of Kashmiri shawls, focusing on how... More
London: David Black Oriental Carpets, 1976. 42 color plates. GWO 1528. This pioneering effort remains one of the standard references for Belouch rugs. More
Strathmiglo, Scotland: Haldanes Craft and Tools, 1985. 85 recipes with a good discussion on color fastness. The one color plate is the color and recipe guide. More
Washington D.C. The Textile Museum, 1952. 52 black and white. An important Textile Museum catalog of the collection of Umayyad (744-749), Abbasid (847-1031) and Fatimid (952-1149) tiraz textiles from Egypt. GWO 2622, CSROT 2654, CRES 1266, SORB TEA-234. More
Tehran / Rotterdam: Barjesteh, Zaman, 1999 (2001). A collection of photographs of 19th century Persia by the legendary photographer. English/Persian text. More
Seoul: Museum of Korean Embroidery, 1988. 82 color plates. Museum of Korean Embroidery exhibition catalog of the Huh collection. Most items are textiles displayed in full-page color. More
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Qinghai: Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, 2014. 176 color plates. Uncommon monograph of piled Tibetan rugs, antique and modern, divided into five categories. Minimal Chinese text. More
London: Sotheby's, 2018. Sale #L18872. 164 lots most illustrated in color. Rugs from the collections of Thyssen-Bornemisza, Herrmann, and other private collectors and families. Strong on East Turkestan rugs. With prices realized. More
New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. 29 color and 6 monochrome illustrations. "For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major religion, indigo-a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub through a complex process that even scientists still regard as mysterious-has been at the... More
Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1999. 48 color and 390 black and white illustrations. "A detailed description of Ulat-ulatan, traditional Balinese basketry, covering all of the traditional types of Balinese baskets and related woven materials, the materials from which they are made, and photographs and diagrams of how they are made... More
Leiden: Brill, 1993. 2 maps. Third edition. "The creation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia was one of the most famous and far-reaching achievements of Alexander the Great. Yet the process was shaped as much by the political traditions of the natives as by the cultural traditions of the... More
London: Duckworth, 1983. Monumental and pioneering work on the evolution of sheep from wild to domesticated and the types of wool produced for textiles and carpets. Numerous black and white illustrations. [SORB PTC-41, GWO 2837]. More
Sydney: Powerhouse, 1999. 22 color plates of rugs and textiles. Museum exhibition catalog includes vintage photographs of Central Asia and color reproductions on Central Asian designs from Simakoff's expedition in 1879. Published in conjunction with an August 1999-June 2000 exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum's Asian Gallery, which houses Australia's largest... More
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[San Anselmo]: Adraskand, [1990]. 8 color illustrations. Small handmade dealer sales catalog of four East Turkestan rugs with technical notes and comparables in the literature. Illustrations are tipped-in photographs. More
Hertfordbury: Roxford Books, 1984. 32 color plates 194 black and white. "The quality and sophistication of locally woven textiles has long been appreciated within Sierra Leone; and the display of Sierra Leone 'country cloths' at the great British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 aroused the admiration of large numbers... More
