Tribal and Village Rugs: The Definitive Guide to Design, Pattern & Motif

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Peter Stone is one of my favorite rug enthusiast authors. This is a comprehensive book on tribal rugs, and has a ton of amazing photos throughout it.If you love rugs, or are in the rug business and want a great book for clients to look through and to learn from, this is a great addition to your library. Two other great Peter Stone books are his Oriental Lexicon, and his Rug Repair book. Though I do not agree on everything he shares (in particular in some of the repairs - the focus on making it look good more than to be structurally as strong as can be made) - he is without a doubt one of the top academics in this field, and there is a lot to learn from him.This book will not disappoint for your own rug education, or as a gift for others.

If you wish to understand the pattern elements of Central Asian, Iranian etc carpets this is the book I would recommend. For each geographical, cultural area the author provides detailed examples of representative patterns and common variations. Unlike many books of this type, instead of pictures of carpets, the author has created computer generated images of the individual designs. This immeasurably assists in identification, and since the carpets themselves are constructed out of grids the blocky form of the illustrations is very suitable. It is not a criticism but the book presupposes some knowledge of carpet design and of elements in Islamic art. I would recommend that you also purchase something like Oriental Carpet Design: A guide to Traditional Motifs (P R J Ford).

This book is a must for anyone interested in tribal and village rugs. There are many illustrations of patterns, borders, etc that characterize each type of rug. The only drawback is that the illustrations, while good, are all hand drawn. Having some actual photographs of carpets to see what these patterns really look like would have been helpful.

After making a few carpet purchases, we used this book to identify them. Great photos and close-ups of the patterns. This book is useful to all levels of collector, and just interesting to flip through to learn about rugs. Only drawback is that it is not available as an ebook.

A good and comprehensive guide to patterns, but all the patterns are shown by illustration - no photographs. At the end of the day it is hard to get a feel for the visual quality of the tribal rugs and patterns described. "Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black Tent" is a better book, in my opinion.

My bible. This book is so well-illustrated, so concise and so well-indexed, it has given me a leg up on the experts in just a few months. Essential.

I was excited to flip through the book upon arrival. know I'm going to enjoy reading this book! Wonderful information. Can't wait to delve into it.

I wanted this book as i have a deep interest in Tribal Oriental Rugs and Carpets.Having read this book cover to cover, i feel i can go back to it whenever i need to.A great book for anyone who is interested in Oriental Rugs.

Really wide information for professional textile historians, students, designers, just lovers of ornament...

i was surprised that this book's pictures are not photographs but well drawn and colourful diagrams.having said which, it is well written and fascinating for a rug nerd like me. so i applaud this effort to approachthe subject of oriental carpet design from a fresh angle

My husband is really difficult to buy presents for but this was perfect for him as he's mad on rugs and their origin and history and he loved it

Interessante per chi volesse leggere in maniera più definita simbologia dei tappeti orientali. I tappeti in questo caso non sono reali ma sono delle riproduzioni ricreate con programmi di grafica. Interessante in ogni caso!