No comments about Oriental Rugs: Turkish (Oriental Rugs).

No comments about The Rug and Carpet Book.

1 comments about Tribal Rugs.

1. 4 and a half stars
   A very informative book liberally illustrated with color plates of some of the most exceptional types of oriental rugs. An excellent commentary written by one of the real gentlemen of the rug business. The author offers some of his own unique theories and insights. Jim does tend to put emphasis on his own particular favorite types of rugs such as Persian tribal rug weaving so know that it is not a comprehensive guide. This in no way lessens the importance of this book. Good as a coffee table book for anyone who appreciates beauty as well as must have for the rug aficionado.

No comments about Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish Paintings 1540 1700.

No comments about European and American Carpets and Rugs: A History of the Hand-Woven Decorative Floor Coverings of Spain, France, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Belgium.

1 comments about The Hooker's Art: Evolving Designs in Hooked Rugs.

1. I waited for quite a while for the price to come down on this book, but I was sadly disappointed when I received it. The pictures are discolored, so the true beauty of the rugs does not come through. If you are not a rug hooker, it is all about the color! No fault of the author, Jessie Turbayne, whose other books are fabulous. It is basically an early version of the "Hooked Rugs Today" type books where the pictures are a large part of the book. With today's digital pictures, books have better photo printing. I am sending my copy back to Amazon on Monday.

2 comments about Genuine Navajo Rug: How to Tell.

1. While there is some useful information in this stapled brochure, it is not a book. Customers need to read the detailed information on page size and number and think about what they're paying for.



2. This book tells it like it is: how to really tell if that rug that fellow wants to sell you is the real thing or a knock-off ... and there are a lot of fakes "out there." The writer also tells you how to buy a good Navajo rug ... what to look for in quality of wool, coloring, weaving expertse, condition, etc. It's worth the money.

No comments about Embroidered Georgian Pictures (Shire Library).

No comments about Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets.

2 comments about The Oriental Rug Lexicon.

1. Stone does not make the assumption, as so many writers about Oriental rugs do, that he knows what the reader wants. Instead, he provides an exhaustive, impartial spectrum of places, conditions, qualities, methods, and types affiliated with Oriental rugs, from earliest known times to the present. Stone manages to keep his work from being dull by interlarding it with astringent observations and keeping his entries brutally essential. Whoever did the layout of this work deserves kudos, too-- it is easy to access, each entry is set off from the others so as to be memorable to those of us who are visual, and there is generous, attractive use of clearly-labeled graphics. I genuinely appreciate this matrix-like, non-linear expert treatment of Oriental rugs, and find myself reading it up like a novel. The only thing I have found lacking so far is an entry on arbash.



2. In the rug world there is almost a constant competition of scholarship. Very rarely does one person so dominate his field as to be the indisputable authority. One of those rare exceptions is Peter Stone. One rug restoration expert told me that there will never be another major book on rug repair in my life time because "Oriental Carpet Repair" by Peter Stone says it all. Stone's new book the "Oriental Rug Lexicon" may well exceed "Oriental Carpet Repair" as a scholarly triumph. If you are at all serious about collecting or if your rugs are anything more than floor coverings to you, you need this book.

   The Definative Guide To Rugs, Carpets, and Trappings What Stone has done is to make one large dictionary of rug terms. He has identified and defined them in an interesting and informative manner. As soon as I received the Lexicon I decided to put it to use. The first job was to decipher a page of notes I had made on dyes and dye sources used in oriental carpets that someone had given me. To have a source where I can double check the difference between a flavenol and a luteolin is invaluable. Other questions are solved just as easily such as what is a Medici Mamaluk versus a regular Mamaluk. Rug books have so many alternate spellings that it is nice to have a source that confirms that a Khorjin, Kharjin, Khordjin, and a Khurdzhin, are all the same thing. The book is designed like a dictionary and it is easy to look up individual words. It is not designed to be read cover to cover but as I spot-checked the definitions I found some thing interesting and fun on virtually every page. As long as I am mentioning spot-checking let me say that I spotted no errors. If, indeed, there are no errors, inaccuracies or mistakes, I will be astounded. There is to be found a wealth of rug terms with all the common alternative spellings including some that I have not encountered until now. All in all, it is an amazing resource.

   The layout of the book is superb. It is packed with informati! on without being crowded. There are many more color pictures than I would have expected with a book of this type and there is an abundance of helpful sketches and line art to illustrate and illuminate Stone's points. Just this week a good friend who has a world class rug collection told me I "have" to buy three books if I want to keep up with things. The total for all three is over $1000 US. I mention this only to make the point that at a list price of $29.95 (US currency for softcover edition, $60 for hardcover edition) Stone's book is about as close to free we are likely to see for a serious rug book. Let me sum up my opinion in just three words: BUY THIS BOOK!