Carpets And Textiles In The Iranian World 1400–1700
Publication
March - November 2010
A compilation in revised form of the papers given at the international conference arranged by the May Beattie Carpet Archive and co-sponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation, held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in August 2003.
Edited by
Dr Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer and Pirjetta Mildh
Published by
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, in association with the Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art, Genoa
About the book
Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400–1700 is a generously illustrated and meticulously produced scholarly compendium of diverse papers on the general theme of the history of carpets and textiles in the Iranian sphere. In the most significant contribution to academic carpet studies since Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies II (1986), Dr. Jon Thompson, Prof. 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, by Jessica Hallett, devoted to Safavid carpets, 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 the Pan Asian art historical background by Yolande Crowe, on Persian costume by Jennifer Scarce and the late Patricia Baker, on Safavid textiles by Mary McWilliams and Beata Biedronska S?ota, on the use of fine goat hair in early 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.
About the Editors
Dr Jon Thompson is an independent scholar and author, widely respected internationally as an expert on Oriental carpets, nomadism in Asia, and silk; Daniel Shaffer is Executive Editor of HALI Magazine and a highly experienced specialist editor in the field of carpet and textiles; Pirjetta Mildh is an archivist with responsibility for the Beattie Archive at the Ashmolean Museum.
Publication Date
March 2010
Price
UK £57 / Europe €76 / Rest of World US$114 (airmail) per copy, including post and packing.
Hardbound with jacket, 200 x 300mm 260 pages, more than 220 color and b/w illustrations Appendix, Works Cited, Index
ISBN 9781898113690
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