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The Handmade Carpet
A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Rugs
By: Fritz Langauer, Ernst Anton Swietly
Hardcover | 1 April 2019
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This new book is the only title available that shows how carpet making has changed in all traditional rug making nations as well as demonstrating through images of rugs in interior settings how the style and use of rugs has changed. Carpets carry many unspoken narratives about peoples and places - this new book reveals some of these for the first time thanks to the first-hand experience of the authors in the souks and bazars of the Middle East.
Book Features:
- For the first time, a lavishly illustrated book shows how traditional handmade rugs and carpets have become vehicles for contemporary trends and used in interior design and home decoration
- The authors' work in journalism and rug production over the last fifty years equips them with the experiences of the travel writer and the specialist knowledge of leaders in the global rug market
- The developments in the weaving industry in India, Iran, Turkey, China, Turkmenistan, Morocco, Pakistan and Afghanistan are reviewed as well as the historical and cultural context for change in a book that shines a light on the contemporary rug market in the 21st century
About the Authors
Ernst Anton Swietly grew up in a family that had just one single carpet. It was rolled out only once a year, during the Christmas holidays, and on each 7 January, the carpet was rolled up and hidden behind a box until next Christmas. Since then, for Ernst, carpets have been a symbol of peaceful, warm, cosy family get-togethers. Later on, Ernst A. Swietly - a journalist for fifty years - travelled the carpet-producing countries of the world discovering the secrets of handmade weaving and their design principles. This is how he met Fritz Langauer, and they realised it was time to write a book on the carpet world of the 21st century.
Fritz Langauer is the son of the businessman Friedrich Langauer who, with his cousin, Adolf Böhm, founded Adil Besim OHG immediately after the Second World. As one of the sons of the two founders, Fritz Langauer joined the company in 1957. With its five branches, a carpet laundry and repair workshop, it developed over the years to become one of the largest department stores in Europe.
ISBN: 9781898113638
ISBN-10: 1898113637
Published: 1st April 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Antique Collectors Agencies
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 31.5 x 24.5 x 2.6
Weight (kg): 1.99
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This product is categorised by
- Non-FictionAntiques, Vintage & CollectablesAntiques & Collectables for Carpets, Rugs & Textiles
- Non-FictionIndustry & Industrial StudiesManufacturing Industries
- Non-FictionArts & EntertainmentArt FormsTextiles in ArtCarpets & Rugs
- Non-FictionLifestyle & FashionInterior Design
- Non-FictionHandicrafts, Decorative Arts & CraftsSpinning & Weaving
- Non-FictionHandicrafts, Decorative Arts & CraftsRug & Carpet Making
- Non-FictionArts & EntertainmentDesign, Industrial & Commercial Arts, IllustrationFashion & Textiles Design