Rug Craftsmanship: 4 Classic Books on Oriental and Antique Rugs
Classic Guides to Oriental Rugs, Antique Carpets, Weaving, Dyes, Motifs, and CollectingBy G. Griffin Lewis, W. A. Hawley, Rosa Belle Holt, Candace Wheeler
Length27h 33m
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Rug Craftsmanship gathers four classic studies of Oriental and antique rugs into a compact history of textile art, connoisseurship, and domestic design. Moving between descriptive cataloguing, technical observation, aesthetic criticism, and practical guidance, the volume illuminates rugs as woven records of material skill, regional tradition, trade, and taste. Its attention to pattern, color, knotting, wear, and provenance gives particular force to the enduring question of how handmade objects acquire both beauty and cultural meaning. The contributors represent distinct strands of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writing on decorative arts: the collector's desire to classify, the historian's concern with origins, and the designer's sensitivity to ornament in lived interiors. G. Griffin Lewis, W. A. Hawley, Rosa Belle Holt, and Candace Wheeler bring differing emphases to a shared subject, collectively situating rugs within broader Arts and Crafts-era debates about craftsmanship, authenticity, global exchange, and the reform of everyday environments. Their voices preserve the period's evolving vocabulary for encountering non-Western and antique textiles. This volume will reward students of design history, collectors, textile enthusiasts, and readers interested in the cultural life of objects. By placing several foundational accounts in dialogue, it offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare methods, assumptions, and appreciations. Rug Craftsmanship is both an instructive reference and an invitation to see carpets anew: as technically accomplished artifacts, historical documents, and enduring works of visual imagination.
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Length27 hrs 33 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs
2The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs
3INTRODUCTION
4THE CARE OF RUGS
5THE IDENTIFICATION OF RUGS
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6CHART SHOWING THE DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE DIFFERENT RUGS (part 1)
7PART II
8GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
9THE PERSIAN CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION
10THE TURKISH CLASSIFICATION
11THE CAUCASIAN CLASSIFICATION
12THE BELUCHISTAN RUGS
13CHINA
14GLOSSARY[C]
15Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern
16Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern
17PREFACE
18II
19III
20IV
21V
22Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern
23Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern
24PREFACE
25ILLUSTRATIONS
26ORIENTAL RUGS (pt. 1)
27ORIENTAL RUGS (pt. 2)
28ORIENTAL RUGS (pt. 3)
29ORIENTAL RUGS (pt. 4)
30ORIENTAL RUGS (pt. 5)
31ORIENTAL RUGS (pt. 6)
32How to make rugs
33How to make rugs
34FOREWORD.
35CHAPTER V.
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