The handmade carpet
Subtitle: a comprehensive guide to contemporary rugs
By: Fritz Langauer and Ernst A. Swietly ; edited by Brian David & Ernst A. Swietly
Contributors: Swietly, Ernst A., author, editor; David, Brian, editor
Publisher: Hali Publications Ltd.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781898113638
Subjects: Oriental Rugs; Collectors and collecting; History; Rugs; Orientteppich; Teppichhandel; Teppichherstellung
Description: The handmade rug industry has gone through a revolution in the last twenty-five years, and no one is better placed to explain how and why than Fritz Langauer and Ernst Swietly, who have been buying, making, collecting and writing about rugs for over fifty years. Rugs are now being made in colours and designs unimagined just a few decades ago. This new book is the only title available that shows how carpet making has changed in all traditional rug making nations as well as demonstrating through images of rugs in interior settings how the style and use of rugs has changed. Carpets carry many unspoken narratives about peoples and places - this new book reveals some of these for the first time thanks to the first-hand experience of the authors in the souks and bazars of the Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.