Carpets & Rugs

Extant carpets, and carpets depicted in paintings in western Europe, mostly from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Articles in this issue include "Oriental Carpets," and "Some Medieval Linen Weaves."

Twenty examples, reproduced for the first time in colour, of old carpets from Persia, India, Caucasia, Armenia, Turkey, China, Spain and England, with an introduction and descriptive notes by A.F. Kendrick, Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Museum, and C.E.C. Tattersall.

Volume 1 and Volume 2 of a book issued by the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry (Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst).

Construction of a loom for knotting and weaving carpets.

The use of Ottoman textile designs in Turkish rugs and the impetus for those artistic borrowings.

Photos and descriptions of rugs (and fragments) from the 13th-16th centuries.