first edition Hardcover
1984 · Chicago
by Stone, Peter
Chicago: Greenleaf Company, 1984. First. Hardcover. NF but with art museum ex-lib. bookplate, blindstamp, and bar code. Beautiful condition otherwise.. Terracotta cloth/boards with gilt lettering; decorative map end papers. No dust jacket. 188 pp. with bw illustrations throughout, numbered by chapter. Includes methods of making the rugs, technical analyses, and examples of all sorts of Caucasian rugs: Baku, Daghestan, Derbend, and Lesghistan, Genje, Karabagh, Kazak, Kuba, Moghan, Shirvan, Talish and Lenkoran. With extensive bw images of design motifs, looms, fiber, etc. Includes a glossary.
(Inventory #: 152935)