With a great introduction by Neville Kingston, you are just in the mood to want to know more about the patterns and ornamentations of carpets (well-known here in the Netherlands as table coverings and household floor carpets as on the Oriental Renaissance paintings), wanting to know more about the function, techniques and geographic differences.
Stating the history of the Turkmen carpets in the post-Mongol time starting in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries with the three primary carpet-weaving zones: South Turkmenistan, the Aralo-Caspian region and Middle Amu Darya. Describing the motifs, the knotting techniques with warp and weft and pile threads, the silk and wool, the book explains with great photos the different inhabitant groups their products as carpets, rugs, tent bags, prayer rug, tent bands and fragments and explications on the meaning of the ornamentation.
Angela van der Burght