Kilim the Complete Guide: History · Pattern · Technique · Identification - Softcover

Hull, Alastair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500282218 ISBN 13: 9780500282212

Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Kilim: The Complete Guide is a comprehensive survey of the field, unravelling the complex questions surrounding the origins and history of these unique flatweaves and their makers. Hundreds of illustrations, many in colour and many specially taken, offer a remarkable blend of information and the dazzling visual allure for which kilims are famous. A detailed account of techniques - embracing materials, dyes, tools, kilim structures and weaving - is followed by a systematic analysis of motifs and symbolism. Here, the complex relationship between Islam and the animistic or shamanistic traditions that preceded it is explored, but so too are the many pitfalls that await any researcher who does not take into account the lore of the bazaar or the marketplace.
The core of the book is devoted to the specific characteristics of region, tribe and kilim type. Four major sections using much original research document kilims from the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia; the enormously important kilims of Anatolia; the riches of Persia and the Caucasus; and the creations of the Afghan and Central Asian nomads.
Chapters on new kilims and the use of kilims as bags and trappings as well as rugs - together with a reference guide to collecting, care and further study - conclude the standard work on a widely appealing subject.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alastair Hull has collected and studied kilims for more than twenty-five years.

José Luczyc-Wyhowska opened London’s Kilim Warehouse in 1982.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0500282218
• ISBN 13: 9780500282212
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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