Caucasian ‘Shield’ Carpets by Michael Franses and Robert Pinner, 1978

June 9, 2013

Caucasian Shield Carpets’ by Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, published in 1978 in the inaugural issue of HALI magazine, remains to this day the definitive study of these 17th and 18th century carpets with variants of the classical shield palmette design. To read ‘Caucasian Shield Carpets’, please click here.

Over the coming months we will be posting many more hard-to-find articles from the early issues of HALI in the In-Depth section of our website.

Caucasian Shield Carpet, Courtesy Moshe Tabibnia, Milan

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