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Book Synopsis A Carpet Ride to Khiva by : Chris Aslan
Download or read book A Carpet Ride to Khiva written by Chris Aslan and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed. Immersing himself in the language and rich cultural traditions Alexander discovers a world torn between Marx and Mohammed - a place where veils and vodka, pork and polygamy freely mingle - against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from "The Arabian Nights". Accompanied by a large green parrot, a ginger cat and his adoptive Uzbek family, Alexander recounts his efforts to rediscover the lost art of traditional weaving and dyeing, and the process establishing a self-sufficient carpet workshop, employing local women and disabled people to train as apprentices. A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for half a millennia, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through an impromptu version of "My Heart Will Go On" for national Uzbek TV and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar. It is an unforgettable true travel story of a journey to the heart of the unknown and the unexpected friendship one man found there.
Book Synopsis A Handbook of Mohammedan Decorative Arts by : M. S. Dimand
Download or read book A Handbook of Mohammedan Decorative Arts written by M. S. Dimand and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1930-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of Mohammedan decorative arts to appear in English, this publication from 1930 highlights The Metropolitan Museum of Art's strong Islamic art collection with over 170 works discussed. The diverse selection objects spans over twelve centuries and includes richly illuminated manuscripts, colorful glazed pottery, and intricate woven carpets, among others. Dimand contextualizes Mohammedan decorative arts within the history of Islam and its spread across the world, from the Middle East to Egypt and India.
Book Synopsis The Ardabil Carpets by : Rexford Stead
Download or read book The Ardabil Carpets written by Rexford Stead and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richness of Near Eastern art is epitomized by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Persian carpets. Among the finest ever produced, the two Ardabil carpets are believed to have been made as offerings for the Shrine of Sheikh Safi at Ardabil during the Safavid dynasty in sixteenth-century Persia. In this text Rexford Stead, deputy director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, explores the intricacies of the Ardabil carpets—one formerly in the Getty Museum and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the other in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. A bibliography and exhibition history are included.
Book Synopsis Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets by : Kurt Erdmann
Download or read book Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets written by Kurt Erdmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inventory of the Objects forming the Collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington by : Victoria and Albert Museum
Download or read book Inventory of the Objects forming the Collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inventory of the Objects Forming the Collections of the Museum of Ornamental Arts ... By J. C. Robinson by : Victoria and Albert Museum
Download or read book Inventory of the Objects Forming the Collections of the Museum of Ornamental Arts ... By J. C. Robinson written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Soul of Kazakhstan by : Wayne Eastep
Download or read book The Soul of Kazakhstan written by Wayne Eastep and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and information on the countyr of kazakhstan heavily illustrated with photos.
Book Synopsis Old Persian Carpets and Their Artistic Values by : Carl Hopf
Download or read book Old Persian Carpets and Their Artistic Values written by Carl Hopf and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hand-woven Carpets, Oriental and European by : Albert Frank Kendrick
Download or read book Hand-woven Carpets, Oriental and European written by Albert Frank Kendrick and published by London : Benn brothers, limited. This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Motor Boat by : Francis P. Prial
Download or read book The Motor Boat written by Francis P. Prial and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: Notes and reviews.
Book Synopsis Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by : Great Exhibition
Download or read book Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue written by Great Exhibition and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by : George Griffin Lewis
Download or read book The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs written by George Griffin Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by George Griffin Lewis, first published in 1913, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Book Synopsis Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 by : Weltausstellung (1851, London)
Download or read book Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 written by Weltausstellung (1851, London) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 by :
Download or read book Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations 1851 by : Anonymous
Download or read book Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations 1851 written by Anonymous and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrected edition of the single-volume catalogue of the Great Exhibition (1851), with maps of the Crystal Palace.
Book Synopsis Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue: Foreign states by :
Download or read book Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue: Foreign states written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
