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Oriental Rugs: A Buyer's Guide

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Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson

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A guide to modern oriental rugs, explaining the techniques, materials, and tools used in making them, and discussing quality, design, color schemes, and resale values.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.7
EAN: 9780500275177
ISBN: 0500275173
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 1988-10
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Studio: Thames & Hudson


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide - The Classic Reference (Oriental Carpets)
• Oriental Carpet Design: A Guide to Traditional Motifs, Patterns and Symbols
• Starting To Collect Antique Oriental Rugs (Starting to Collect Series)
• Rugs to Riches: Guide to Buying Oriental Rugs, Revised & Updated Edition
• Tribal and Village Rugs: The Definitive Guide to Design, Pattern & Motif


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

A good book for beginners -
I am a newcomer in the world of persian rugs and found this book very useful. The more you read the more you understand that there is an entire world to discover and the author introduces you in this nice exotic world. It is by no means a complete guide on the subject but it is a very good starting point to understand the basics of the subject. I would highly recommend this book before reading other, more massive and detailed books.

Read this, buy smart -
I've been looking for a great rug buyer's guide, working in the rug industry. It's hard to come across a good resource out there. I'd say that this is a good primer on rugs, if you want to make sure you're buying right. Saves you from the regret of making the wrong rug purchase, or the tediousness of having to deal with customer service departments of rug companies. Just like any big purchase, rug buying must be treated with the right amount of reverence. Great resource. Recommended.

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This book has really helped me increase my knowledge and ability to recognize different kinds of rugs in a dealer's showroom. There are good color photographs, many diagrams about motifs and descriptions of features that rugs from various locales have. I keep going back to the book and re-reading things I didn't pick up before. It is definitely a buyers' guide.

Consider this book a VERY basic introduction only -
If you are interested in buying a book to learn just the basics of Oriental Rugs in a short time span, this book is just fine. The content is good, and there are about 20 pages of glossy pictures showing different designs of rugs.
If your intention is to buy a book which will help you really understand the nuances of Oriental rugs, you need to look elsewhere. I gave the book an average rating, because that's what it is - not a great reference, but also not a bad value for the money. Just a decent book conveying about what you'd expect from a 100 page introductory text.

Plentiful information for novices -
I found this book a useful text for beginners. It provides organized information without being overly complex and boring. One benefit of the book is that occasionally when the author makes reference to an item explained in detail elsewhere in the text, a page number is given so the reader can jump to the detailed description if necessary. It's the 1980's version of hyperlinks. The color plates are beautiful, but lack descriptions of the sizes of the rugs. Also lacking is the pronunciation guide; A basic guide exists, but falls short by lacking pronunciations for all but one or two words. I was also hoping to read a discussion of the varrying lengths of rug fringes, which this book did not discuss. A final benefit of the book is the last chapter on the major and minor weaving groups. These sections provide a good source of reference when one needs to get quick, basic information about a particular group.

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