FLAT-WOVEN TEXTILES: The Arthur D. Jenkins Collection. Vol 1 Unknown - 1981

Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1981. First edition red cloth hard cover with dust jacket, NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. Unmarked, tight crisp copy with one corner lightly bumped. Jacket is rubbed at corners and spine ends and is offered in protective mylar cover. 223pp., numerous full page color plates.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.

Hardback. new/good. Bit of wear to top of dust jacket spine.

Textile Museum, 1981., 1981. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book, but some sun-fading on the front cover and slight shelf wear on the edges of the dust jacket.221 p., 62 illus., 40 in color, 31 x 23 cm. An analysis of the 62 flat-weaves in this collection; the flatweaves are from Iran, Turkey, and the Caucasus. Cootner provides an extensive essay on flatweave production in Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus and on the specific textiles. The second part of the book contains 5 essays: Cootner: Flat-weaves and knotted pile: An historical and structural overview; Bierman: Medieval flatweaves in the Urban Middle East; Beattie: A note on zilu; Wertime: Weft-wrapping in in nomadic and village flat-woven textiles from the Near-East and Central Asia, and Wertime: A guide to flat-woven struct ures. This is volume 1; there was no volume 2.