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Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400 – 1700

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12 April 2010

Published by The May Beattie Archive at the Ashmolean Museum and The Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art, the new publication ‘Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400 – 1700’ is one of the most significant contribution to carpet studies since Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies II.

Generously illustrated, ‘Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400 – 1700’ brings together in revised form papers given at an international conference arranged by the May Beattie Carpet Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in August 2003, and includes the work of scholars from several disciplines whose expertise illuminates different aspects of the history of carpets and textiles. Jon Thompson, Walter Denny and Christine Klose address certain important theoretical questions relating to carpets in the 15th century and later. Their subject matter overlaps to some extent, although all three adopt rather different points of view. A fourth paper devoted to carpets, by Jessica Hallett, refers to original documents to survey the fashion in Portugal for ‘oriental’ carpets during the 16th and 17th centuries, a notable gap in our knowledge. Wider academic interest in textile themes is reflected in papers on Persian costume by Jennifer Scarce and Patricia Baker, on Safavid textiles by Mary McWilliams and Beata Biedronska Slota, on the use of fine goat hair in Persian and Indian carpets and textiles by Steven Cohen, and on the Indian Ocean and international textile trade by Willem Floor and René Bekius. The book stands as a fitting tribute to the life and pioneering scholarship of May H. Beattie.

Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400 – 1700

Hardbound with jacket, 200 x 300mm
260 pages, more than 220 colour and b/w illustrations Appendix, Works Cited, Index
Published: March 2010

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