This column is an initial effort to publish on an occasional basis listings of articles concerning the broader field of Oriental rugs and textiles. While this journal's concern is with Oriental rugs and textiles primarily of interest to collectors, dealers, auction houses, and those interested in learning about rugs in the marketplace, there are books and articles published by scholars in academic institutions and museums which remain largely unknown and untapped by many people who write and read exclusively about Oriental rugs and textiles.
To our knowledge there is presently no one who attempts to provide a consolidated listing of such articles. To fill this void, we have asked a group of scholars and museum professionals to provide us with information on articles in their discipline which contains information about Oriental rugs and textiles. We have received their first responses, and they are published herewith. We anticipate publishing these lists on a semi-annual basis. Other individuals whom we did not contact are invited to bring articles to our attention as well.
(Listed Alphabetically by Title)
ENCYCLOPEDIA IRANICA
, a new encyclopedia presently being published in
fascicles and available by subscription; of particular interest is Vol. III,
fasc. 6 (Baluch) and Vol. IV, fasc. 8 (Carpets), both previously reviewed;
however, every fascicle will have information on some aspect of Oriental
weaving. Subscription and individual fascicle prices from Mazda Publishers,
P.O. Box 2603, Costa Mesa CA 92626, phone: 714/751-5252
IZMIR AND THE LEVANTINE WORLD, 1550-1650, Daniel Goffman, University of Washington Press, 1990; an in-depth study of an important entrepot for Western goods and collection point for local goods including carpets.
"MACHINE BREAKING AND THE CHANGING CARPET INDUSTRY OF WESTERN ANATOLIA, 1860-1908," Donald Quataert, Journal of Social History, 19 (1985-86), pp. 473-89; an historical and economic study of the development of Western-funded carpet production in Anatolia.
"METAL THREADS MADE OF PROTEINACEOUS SUBSTRATES EXAMINED BY SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY-ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTOMETRY," N. Indictor, R. J. Koestler, M. Wypyski and A. E. Wardwell, in Studies in Conservation, Vol. 34 (1989), pp. 171-182.
"OTTOMAN LUXURY TRADES AND THEIR REGULATION," J. Michall Rogers, Ostmanistiche Studien zur Wirtschafts-und Sozialgeschichte in Memorium Vanco Boskov, Wiesbaden, 1986.
"PANNI TATARICI: EASTERN ISLAMIC SILKS WOVEN WITH GOLD AND SILVER (13th AND 14th CENTURIES," Anne E. Wardwell, in Islamic Art III, New York, 1989, pp. 95-173.
PREHISTORIC TEXTILES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLOTH IN THE NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE AEGEAN, Elizabeth J. W. Barber, to be published in December, 1990 by Princeton University Press. A complete revision of notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East; separate essays reassess the origins of spinning, weaving and looms, explore the role of women in ancient textile production and study the evidence for ornate textiles produced by the Minoans and Mycenaeans.
"RECENTLY DISCOVERED TEXTILES WOVEN IN THE WESTERN PART OF CENTRAL ASIA BEFORE A.D. 1220," Anne E. Wardwell, in Textile History, (Festschrift for Donald King), Vol. 20, No. 2 (1989), pp. 175-184.
"RESIST DYED TEXTILES FROM QUSEIR AL-QADIM," Gillian Vogelsand-Eastwood, Aedta, Paris, 1990. A monograph on a group of 13th and 14th century textiles, probably of Indian origin, excavated at Quseir al-Qadim. 119 pages, 70 color illustrations, nine color enlargements. Available for $70 by check or postal order to Mrs. Teresa R. Mayer, Leperq, de Neuflize & Co., 1675 Broadway, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10019
"THE STATE AND THE ARTS IN OTTOMAN TURKEY, PART 2: THE FURNITURE AND DECORATIONS OF SULEYMANIYE," J. Michall Rogers, International Journal of Middel East Studies, 14 (1982), pp. 283-313.
"TEXTILES," Louise Mackie, Fustat Expedition Final Report, Vol. 2, Fustat C, ed. by Wladyslaw Kubiak and George T. Scanlon, Winona Lake, Indiana, 1989, pp. 81-97. This is the first report of the 1980 Fustat season in which several thousand textile scraps were excavated, and dated on comparative grounds, between the 7th and 12th centuries. Included are three carpet scraps probably imported and considerable woolen fragments, some candidates for kilims and other early flatweaves. Fustat was, for centuries, the garbage dump for Cairo, after serving as a major commercial city for Mediterranean trade.
"THE TEXTILES FROM PAZYRYK," Karen S. Rubinson, Expedition, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1990. A report by a member of the Trans-Asian Seminar of the Institute for Asian Research, CUNY in which the local and imported fabrics at Pazyryk are analyzed against objects from contemporaneous cultures. An excellent article for the lay reader.
