ISBN |
1898113696 (hbk.) |
9781898113690 (hbk.) |
Title |
Carpets and textiles in the Iranian world, 1400-1700 : proceedings of the conference held at the Ashmolean Museum on 30-31 August 2003 / edited by Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer and Pirjetta Mildh for the May Beattie Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in association with the Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art |
Publisher |
Oxford ; Genoa : May Beattie Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ; in association with the Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art, 2010 |
Physical desc. |
260 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps. ; 31 cm. |
Note |
"Edited, produced and packaged for the publishers by Hali Publications Ltd., London" -- Dust-jacket. |
Reproduction of antique map of Persia on endpapers. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-257) and index |
Contents |
Textiles and patterns across Asia in the thirteenth-century: a Southern Song tomb, Armenian manuscripts and Mongol tiles / Yolande Crowe -- Carpets and kufesque / Julia Bailey -- Carpets in the fifteenth century / Jon Thompson -- Anatolia, Tabriz, and the carpet design revolution / Walter Denny -- Traces of Timurid carpets in contemporary and later carpets from the near east / Christine Klose -- From the looms of Yazd and Isfahan: Persian carpets and textiles in Portugal / Jessica Hallett -- The use of fine goat hair for the production of luxury textiles: its origins and the similarities and differences of its use in Iran and India during the reigns of the Safavid and Mughal shahs / Steven Cohen -- The court dress of Safavid Iran in the sixteenth century: an interpretation of some textiles represented in contemporary manuscript illustration / Jennifer Scarce -- Wrought of gold or silver: honorific garments in seventeenth century Iran / Patricia L. Baker -- A Safavid velvet in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston: a contribution to the 'botanical' study of Safavid voided velvets / Mary McWilliams - Persian sashes preserved in Polish collections / Beata Biedrońska Słota -- The import of Indian textiles into Safavid Persia / Willem Floor -- A global enterprise: Armenian merchants in the textile trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / René Bekius -- Appendix: the inventory of the 5th Duke of Bragança, D. Teodósio I. |
Subject |
Rugs, Persian -- History -- Congresses |
Carpets -- Iran -- History -- Congresses |
Carpets -- India -- History -- Congresses |
Islamic textile fabrics -- Iran -- History -- Congresses |
Added name(s) |
Thompson, Jon ed. |
Shaffer, Daniel ed. |
Mildh, Pirjetta ed. |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Ashmolean Museum |
Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art |