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Weavings of Nomads in Iran: Warp-Faced Bands and Related Textiles

Weavings of Nomads in Iran: Warp-Faced Bands and Related Textiles

Current price: $95.00
Publication Date: December 22nd, 2020
Publisher:
Hali Publications Ltd
ISBN:
9781898113805
Pages:
420

Description

This is the first book devoted exclusively to the hand-woven bands made by the nomadic peoples of Iran. The publication features many previously unpublished weavings of great art-historical and anthropological importance.

About the Author

Dr Fred Mushkat has been collecting and diligently studying the warp-faced woven bands of Iran since the late 1980s. His work is supplemented by detailed commentary co-written by the socio-cultural anthropologist Professor Lois Beck of Washington University in St. Louis, (the world expert on the Qashqa'i nomads in Southwestern Iran), and Naheed Dareshuri, a Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralist currently living in the United States. The book also includes a contribution by Professor Peter Alford Andrews, the world's foremost authority on the architecture and use of nomadic tents of Eurasia.