Oriental Rug Web Resources #1
Oriental Rug Web Resources #1
Although our site is a wealth of Oriental Rug Knowledge, there are other good places on the internet as well as some good books about Persian Rugs.
Below you will find a list of some of these resources; we compiled this list for your benefit, take advantage of it!
Wikipedia Articles
Oriental Rugs – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_rug
“By definition, oriental rugs are rugs that come from the “Orient” (East). The simple definition of the term would be rugs that come from (were made in) an Asian country such as: China and Vietnam in the east to Turkey, Maghreb countries, Cyprus and Iran in the west, the Caucasus in the north, and India in the south…”
Persian Rugs- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_rug
“The Persian carpet is an essential part of Persian art and culture. Carpet-weaving is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of Persian culture and art, and dates back to ancient Persia. In 2008, Iran’s exports of hand-woven carpets was $420 million or 30% of the world’s market. There is an estimated population of 1.2 million weavers…”
Although Wikipedia is open-source, it is a great source of knowledge. Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published by the journal Nature.
Rug Books
This website has a large selection of rug-related books to choose from. The site is appropriately titled “Books on Oriental Rugs, Carpets, Ethnographic Textiles and the People Who Wove Them”.
Oriental Rug Repair Co
http://www.navajorugrepair.com/orientalrugbooks.htm
This is the site of a rug repair and cleaning service
located in Arizona, but they have compiled a nice list of interesting rug books. One of the books they recommend, Oriental Rugs Today, is highly recommended and interesting as I have read it myself.
More resources coming next month!
