European American Antique Carpets Rugs In-Depth Book

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Lavishly illustrated with 112 color and 326 black-and-white photographs, this comprehensive book provides an in-depth study and pictorial survey of  EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN CARPETS AND RUGS .     By Cornelia Bateman Faraday, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, England, 1929/1990 is an updated edition of an early, very competent book on the subject.

"Until recently, European and American production has been largely ignored, hence very little information has been available. There is an enormous range of material available from most of the principal European countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland, the Balkans, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Czechoslovakia as well as France, Britain and Ireland. The American author naturally gives prominence to the production of her own country, and both hand-made and machine-produced rugs and carpets are thoroughly covered. The book is packed with information and as it was written at the very height of interest in Art deco, it includes important designer rugs by names hitherto unknown or unconnected with rugs and carpets, as well as a wealth of unique information about technique and styles. Some 70 new color plates have been added, and the distinguished scholar Ian Bennett has contributed an introduction incorporating the findings of more recent scholarship into this important new area of interest. The result is a standard work of reference." All kinds of techniques are shown, braided, hooked, cross-stitched, woven, etc. encapsulating a compendium of traditional European designs, patterns and motifs. Here is a well-illustrated, well-researched and authoritative volume that will become an essential reference for anyone who creates, buys, sells, or collects Western world carpets.

Heavy 8.5" x 11" hardback with dust cover in protective plastic sleeve in like-new condition. 484 pages.

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