From Ashgabat to Istanbul
Subtitle: oriental rugs from Canadian collections
By: curated by Natalia Nekrassova = D'Achgabat à Istanbul : les tapis d'Orient des collections canadiennes / réalisée par Natalia Nekrassova
Contributors: Textile Museum of Canada
Publisher: Textile Museum of Canada
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780980908831
Subjects: Oriental Rugs; Exhibitions; Weaving; Collectors and collecting; Private collections; Textile Museum of Canada
Other titles: D'Achgabat à Istanbul; From Ashgabat to Istanbul.; From Ashgabat to Istanbul. French.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Textile Museum of Canada from October 8, 2014 to April 19, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword / Shauna McCabe; title: Map; title: From Ashgabat to Istanbul : oriental rugs from Canadian collections / Natalia Nekrassova; title: Adventurers, connoisseurs and dealers : the rise of Toronto's oriental rug traders / Neil Brochu; title: Rug collecting at the Royal Ontario Museum : a tale of fits and starts / Sarah Fee; title: Researching the "felt belt": the documentation and collection of traditional felts in west, central and inner Asia, the Middle East and North Africa / Michael Gervers; title: Calamity and diversity : a collector's perspective / Max Allen; title: Lloyd Erikson : collecting for the future / Michele Hardy; title: Textile Museum of Canada rug exhibitions, 1975 to 2014; title: Donors to the rug collection at the Textile Museum of Canada; title: Curator's acknowledgements / Natalia Nekrassova.