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Full of valuable information about Moroccan carpets
It is extremely well researched and informative book. It highlights the beauty of the Moroccan weaving art. This book is in a class byitself just as Moroccan carpets are. ... Read more

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A Must Buy For Navajo Weaving Enthusiasts
This book is more than just great pictures-of which there are many.It provides an excellent history lesson on the introduction of figural elements in Navajo weaving, including the stories behind the popular Yei, Yeibichais and sandpainting weavings. There are 170 full-color examples of weavings that illustrate this book, comprising one of the most difinitive surveys of pictorial weavings. The book is boken out into nine sections, such as "Birds, Flora, Fauna", and gives an imformative look ateach style's evolution. The authors also reviews the impact Western civilization has had on weaving styles, including the introduction of trains, cars and buidlings. It has helped me date rugs in my own collection as well as those I've considered purchasing. It really is a "must buy" for rug enthusiasts. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - Native American    2. Art    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. Crafts & Hobbies    5. Navajo art    6. Navajo textile fabrics    7. Weaving    8. Antiques & Collectibles / Rugs    9. Art of indigenous peoples    10. North America    11. Textile arts   

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Infinite Landscapes Woven From Wool
To begin with, Tribal Rugs: Treasures Of The Black Tentis by design a comprehensive reference work. Dealers and collectors will be well-served by Brian W. MacDonald's exhaustive survey of the carpets of Central Asia. But as one spends time hypnotically absorbed in the patterns of the incredibly intricate weavings presented in these pages, and learns a bit about the tribal cultures of the people who created them, one sees that Tribal Rugs is also a profound portrait of a highly evolved art form. An art form that is not pursued in order to create art. But rather unselfconciously, in a utilitarian way. Because the weaving is always done for practical purposes, to meet the needs of the family as it travels from region to region throughout the year. Which makes the infinite patience and unstinting devotion to aesthetic ideal with which the work is accomplished that much more remarkable. My thought about these rugs, about their visual and emotional impact, is that each depicts a rarefied landscape of uncompromising beauty. A landscape that intrinsically possesses meaning and maybe even sacred qualities (many weavings are in fact uniquely configured as prayer rugs). To study carefully these landscapes reveals a world of otherness that endlessly fascinates, captivates, and ultimately challenges thoroughly perceptual complacency with salubrious result. ... Read more

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Almost Worthless
This book takes the buckshot approach in order to reach its audience, and more often than not, misses the mark entirely.An insubstantial blurb of a paragraph or two for each area substitutes for a wealth of information; the descriptions are so general as to be easily transposed to any other rug-producing region in the world.The book is replete with beautiful pictures of antique rugs, but contemporary rugs are conspicuous by their absence, leading me to believe that the author hails from the school that believes that new rugs do not measure up to the standards of the past; a position of simplistic ignorance.Consequently, the last century of rug weaving is entirely ignored.As is usually the case in this subject, tribal rugs figure prominently throughout the book at the expense of the more fluid, elaborately designed city rugs.The author's bias extends as far as to equip the book with larger, livelier photographs of tribal rugs. I appreciate the tribal form, but the balance of the book is upset by its emphasis on these types.The introductory chapters covering dyes and the weaving process are inadequate and insubstantial, useful only to those whose interest in the subject will not progress beyond this book. ... Read more

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Mr. Tanavoli does it again!
Tanavoli has done it again.His insight and knowledge of Tribal and Village rugs from Persia are incomparable.The pieces illustrated in this book are among the finest collections.I enjoyed the text and Mr. Tanavolis insight and thoughts of each item illustrated. Highly recommended for the advanced collector and novice. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques / Collectibles    3. Antiques/Collectibles    4. Bibliographies & Indexes    5. Bibliography    6. General    7. Rug Making    8. Rugs    9. Rugs, Oriental    10. Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies    11. Crafts & Hobbies / General    12. Rug & carpetmaking