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240 pages
24.5 x 32.5 cm
320 colour illustrations
5 maps
Hardcover
English.
ISBN: 978-3-89790-445-3
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TURKMEN CARPETS

-The Neville Kingston Collection

Elena Tsareva

The publication introduces for the first time the extraordinarily rich yet previously unknown British collection of Turkmen tribal carpets, rugs and trappings by Neville Kingston. The exceptional private collection forms the departure point for an exciting account of the development of the Turkmen weaving tradition, which lies at the heart of Eurasian textiles.
 
Thanks to Elena Tsareva’s extensive study of the art of Turkmen carpets in the light of archaeological and historical data, a complex picture of central Asian textiles has emerged. It shows how every epoch has contributed to the fundamentals of carpet-weaving and enriched it with new motifs, compositions and techniques.
 

Posted 1 July 2016

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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

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