Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th -19th Centuries

Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 1987. Hardcover. As New and ex art library with mylar cover.. Black color illustrated dustjacket over black cloth. xvi, 336 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name. Includes annotated and illustrated catalogue of 106 works, as well as several essays. Comprehensive volume on the textile arts of Iran in the 16th to the 19th centuries. This first integrated study of the role of textiles in the development of the Persian nation (now Iran) reveals their unique importance to (truncated) international trade and economics and to the cultural environment. The result of extensive scholastic research, the touring exhibition traces the evolution of the art through the major textile-producing eras, of the Safawid and Kajar dynasties, from the sixteenth to early twentieth century. (Inventory #: 201531)