WikiRug:Book of the week/2020/12

Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins
Author: Peter F. Stone (translated from Persian to English by Jalaedin Basam)

The Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins book by Peter F. Stone, Lavishly illustrated with over 1000 photographs and drawings, it offers clear and precise definitions for the rug and textile terms in use across a broad swath of the globe—from Morocco to Turkey, Persia, the Caucasus region, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China. Covering priceless museum-quality rug traditions as well as modern centers of production, Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins draws on classical scholarship as well as current terminology in use among producers and traders in these areas today. It focuses primarily on the rich hand-knotting and hand-weaving traditions of the Near East and Central Asia, but also includes some examples of Scandinavian and Native American weavings.