- Paperback: 267 pages
- Publisher: University of Washington Press; 1st Edition edition (31 Dec 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0295975741
- ISBN-13: 978-0295975740
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,372,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Explains weaving terms and identifies traditional rug patterns.
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Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Oriental Rug Lexicon by Peter F Stone is not a book you can sit down and read from cover to cover. It's a reference work of alphabetically arranged terms to describe rug types, rug-making 'lingo', designs, dyes, and techniques. It's handy if you need to check a term you're unfamiliar with which has cropped up in another book or in conversation but it's fair to say it would be a very heavy read.
Disappointingly most of the 600 illustrations are in black and white with just 47 in colour. I don't feel terribly comfortable with this book which is probably why it's been gathering dust on my shelf whilst other more lavishly illustrated books are pulled down and browsed much more often.
Disappointingly most of the 600 illustrations are in black and white with just 47 in colour. I don't feel terribly comfortable with this book which is probably why it's been gathering dust on my shelf whilst other more lavishly illustrated books are pulled down and browsed much more often.
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful
BUY THIS BOOK!
13 Jun 1998
Format:Paperback
In the rug world there is almost a constant competition of scholarship. Very rarely does one person so dominate his field as to be the indisputable authority. One of those rare exceptions is Peter Stone. One rug restoration expert told me that there will never be another major book on rug repair in my life time because "Oriental Carpet Repair" by Peter Stone says it all. Stone's new book the "Oriental Rug Lexicon" may well exceed "Oriental Carpet Repair" as a scholarly triumph. If you are at all serious about collecting or if your rugs are anything more than floor coverings to you, you need this book.
The Definative Guide To Rugs, Carpets, and Trappings What Stone has done is to make one large dictionary of rug terms. He has identified and defined them in an interesting and informative manner. As soon as I received the Lexicon I decided to put it to use. The first job was to decipher a page of notes I had made on dyes and dye sources used in oriental carpets that someone had given me. To have a source where I can double check the difference between a flavenol and a luteolin is invaluable. Other questions are solved just as easily such as what is a Medici Mamaluk versus a regular Mamaluk. Rug books have so many alternate spellings that it is nice to have a source that confirms that a Khorjin, Kharjin, Khordjin, and a Khurdzhin, are all the same thing. The book is designed like a dictionary and it is easy to look up individual words. It is not designed to be read cover to cover but as I spot-checked the definitions I found some thing interesting and fun on virtually every page. As long as I am mentioning spot-checking let me say that I spotted no errors. If, indeed, there are no errors, inaccuracies or mistakes, I will be astounded. There is to be found a wealth of rug terms with all the common alternative spellings including some that I have not encountered until now. All in all, it is an amazing resource.
The layout of the book is superb. It is packed with informati! on without being crowded. There are many more color pictures than I would have expected with a book of this type and there is an abundance of helpful sketches and line art to illustrate and illuminate Stone's points. Just this week a good friend who has a world class rug collection told me I "have" to buy three books if I want to keep up with things. The total for all three is over $1000 US. I mention this only to make the point that at a list price of $29.95 (US currency for softcover edition, $60 for hardcover edition) Stone's book is about as close to free we are likely to see for a serious rug book. Let me sum up my opinion in just three words: BUY THIS BOOK!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Finally, a useable book on Orientals
5 Feb 2003
Format:Hardcover
Stone does not make the assumption, as so many writers about Oriental rugs do, that he knows what the reader wants. Instead, he provides an exhaustive, impartial spectrum of places, conditions, qualities, methods, and types affiliated with Oriental rugs, from earliest known times to the present. Stone manages to keep his work from being dull by interlarding it with astringent observations and keeping his entries brutally essential. Whoever did the layout of this work deserves kudos, too-- it is easy to access, each entry is set off from the others so as to be memorable to those of us who are visual, and there is generous, attractive use of clearly-labeled graphics. I genuinely appreciate this matrix-like, non-linear expert treatment of Oriental rugs, and find myself reading it up like a novel. The only thing I have found lacking so far is an entry on arbash.
Indispensable
1 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This essential book belongs on every rug and textile collector's shelf as a dependable reference work. Well indexed and cross-referenced, one could hardly expect more from an encyclopedic digest like The Oriental Rug Lexicon.
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