God bless Sotheby's, their carpet department
is second to none. However every once in a while
I think they are a little too conservative. This
is a case in point; They have cataloged this rug
as "A WEST ANATOLIAN RUG" and
"18th century". It has been suggested
elsewhere that this rug is actually 17th century
and most likely from the Bergama area. The small
squares in the outer guard border are indicative
of Bergama see Bergama
Rug C. 1900 Sotheby's Doris Leslie Blau lot 66,
Bergama
prayer rug, West Anatolia, circa 1850, and Bergama
Rug ex Bill Price 18th C Lot 47 for other
related renditions of the small square element.
ORIENTAL
RUGS, CARPETS + TAPESTRIES
Sale Date: May 18 2009 12:00 Freeman's May 18th
auction of Oriental Rugs, Carpets & Textiles
will include over 170 lots.
The sale features a very good selection of
collectible rugs from Anatolia and the Caucasus,
with most originating from a single private
collection. Good Anatolian rugs include lot
110, a fine Bergama rug, lot 112, an interesting
West Anatolian rug from the Oushak region, lots
142 and 168, two additional fine, classic Bergama
rugs, and lot 151, an early Northwest Anatolian
rug from the Bergama region. Interesting
Caucasian rugs include lot 139, a fine Kasim
Ushag rug, lot 149, an unusual Konagkend Kuba
runner, lot 156, a cruciform medallion design
Shirvan, dated and probably of Armenian origin,
Kazak rugs, including lots 159 and 165, a good
Shirvan prayer rug, lot 161 as well as a Shirvan
overall design rug with a Zejwa variant design,
lot 161A, and a good Seychour long rug, lot 170.
Hi Barry!
Just wanted you to know that there is a fully
assembled yurt in the Mingei Museum in Escondido,
CA and it will be there until July. They also
have a collection of textiles too. Its called
Nomadic Legacy
http://www.mingei.org/exhibitions/detail.php?EID=158
Mingei International Museum (760) 735-3355 155 W
Grand Ave Escondido, CA
Thanks for having an informative site,
Cynthia
The 4th Avenue Rug Gallery San Diego, CA
Important New
book on Qashqa'i Weaving
Dr. Lois Beck is the leading scholar on the
Qashqai of Iran. You can see my Notes
on Dr. Lois Beck. So when she writes to me
about a new book on Qashqai weaving it is
important
Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:18 AM From: Lois Beck
Dear Barry:
I wrote to you last summer
about a new book related to Qashqa'i
weaving. Now that the book is published and
available, perhaps you can help in some way to
disseminate news about it. We
hope for a paperback edition once the publisher
sees that there is interest in the book.
Now it is available only in hardback.
Julia Huang, Tribeswomen of
Iran: Weaving Memories among Qashqa'i
Nomads. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009.
The US distributor is Palgrave
Macmillan, which indicates that the book is
available 12 May 2009. It has been
available in Europe for a month or so.
I am attaching a copy of the
cover and a promotional flyer used by the
publisher for a UK audience.
Julia, by the way, is my
daughter.
She has included a long,
anthropologically oriented glossary of terms
related to weaving, which you may find
interesting. I don't know of another list
like hers.
Too bad the carpet convention
did not meet in Saint Louis this year.
Best wishes,
Lois
May
9th Rug & Textile Appreciation Morning:
Afshar Rugs and Textiles with
International Hajji Baba Society President Austin
Doyle Saturday, 10:30 am
May
30th Rug & Textile Appreciation Morning:
Oriental Rugs and Textiles 101 with
Wendel Swan Saturday, 10:30 am
At
RTAMs you are invited to bring clean,
well-vacuumed examples related to the title of
the program. Seating is limited, so please arrive
early. FREE; no reservations required.
Shirvan Rug with floral Botehs It has a date
using the old Persian lunar corrected date that
was discontinued in the 1920s. No repairs, even
wear, full borders, it is in amazing condition.
It was purchased by the owner's grandmother on a
road trip through Persia in the early 1900s.
Grogan
& Company Dedham Mass. Sale
#119 Sunday,
April 19th, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
To include
American and European Paintings, Prints and Drawings,
18th and 19th century
Furniture and Decorations, Silver and Oriental Rugs and
Carpets Fully
Illustrated On-line Catalog Inquiries:
Michael B. Grogan @ 781.461.9500
Kars, Adrahan, and Erzurum rugs from the
Russian period.
Harold Keshishian teaches me about rugs from
1878 to W.W.I from Czarist occupied Eastern
Anatolia. Attribution clues are the black ground
with a Caucasian design. Also catch prominent
California Scholar/Dealer Ed Krayer in the
discussion.
Ali Aydin at Tribal Arts in San Francisco
2009
One of my favorite Istanbul
dealers Seref Ozen at Tribal Arts in San
Francisco 2009
Alberto Levi is in NYC for the Pacific
Asia Show
Nineteenth Pacific Asia
Show
NEW LOCATION!!! March 14th through March 18th,
2009
7 West 34th St @ 5th Ave Across from the Empire
State Building.
My old friend Richard Rothstein has a excellent video
on how his rugs are woven. Weaving
Oriental Rugs I was going to put it
here but the format is a little large.
Hagop Manoyan at the Tribal
Arts Show in San Francisco 2009
Oriental Rug Collector Sonny Berntsson
stopped in at Seref Ozen's booth at the Tribal
Arts Show. Sonny is a collector of Anatolian Rugs
and is a member of AKREP in Sweden.
Part 1 Caucasian Rugs Identification &
Classification
Part 2 Caucasian Rugs Identification &
Classification
Recently I have heard of new rugs made from
old wool. I tended to discount it and I examine
one of those rugs here. But I may have been hasty
because I was assuming that it was like the
high-end fakes were they use old Kilim wool to
create very authentic looking copies. Then I got
to thinking of the Hazara gloves I used to see in
DC made from unraveled used clothing. Just
because it is recycled wool does not
automatically mean old kilims it could be from
old sweaters. After all many clothes that fail to
sell in places like Good Will end up shipped to
Afghanistan.
I spotted this technique in pictures of old
Bijar rugs. Then years ago I saw a RTAM
presentation at the Textile Museum by Doug
and Helen Stock of D. B. Stock Antique
Persian Carpetsin
Wellesley Massachusetts where they showed a rug
with this technique of knotting. That must have
been almost 10 years ago so when I saw this rug I
wanted to document it.
Blocking a Carpet
Not all carpets are perfectly square. To
square up a rug there is a process called
blocking. Thea Sand was kind enough to explain
the process to me.