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"This book explores the history, design techniques, materials, craftsmanship, and socio-economic contexts of these works. Fifty-five examples of Islamic carpets are illustrated with new photographs and revealing details. Walter B. Denny situates these carpets within the cultural and social realm of their production, be it in a nomadic encampment, a rural village, or an urban workshop."
Reading carpet technique
Stylistic evolutions
Tracing carpet history. The origins and early development of knotted-pile carpets ; Workshop carpets : commercial products and court designs ; Domestic carpets : village and nomadic weaving
Reading carpet symbolism
Beyond the Islamic world.
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How to read Islamic carpets. ISBN 9781588395405. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.