Notes on John Wertime

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John Wertime (with microphone) comments on a goat hair rug at Show and Tell.

The Textile Museum October 19, 1997

Photo by Sandy Borchetta

Rare Shahsavan Band in the John Wertime Collection

• Washington DC area specialty collectable rug dealer as well as author, lecturer, and expert on flatweaves and tribal rugs.

• Wertime, John, Contributing Editors, Hali The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art.

• John Wertime

• Rug & Carpet Dealers In The U.S.

• The Best Rug & Carpet Appraisers

• Sumac Bags by John Wertime

• Wertime, J. Sumak Bags of Northeast Persia and Transcaucasia. 1998,

• The Joseph V. McMullan Award

• Tanavoli, Parviz. Translated by Wertime, John. Kings, Heroes, and Lovers

• Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers

• "Persian Rug Weaving Cultures" Denver: ACOR4 Focus Session, 1998.

• "Jajims" Santa Monica: ACOR 3, 1996.

• Wertime, John T. SUMAK Bags of Northwest Persia and Transcaucasia. 1998,

• de Franchis, A. and John T. Wertime: Lori and Bakhtiyari Flatweaves. Tehran: Tehran Rug Society, 1976

• Wertime, John 1979 Flat­Woven Structures Found in Nomadic and Village Weavings from the Near East and Central Asia, Textile Museum Journal, vol. 18, pp. 33­55.

• Wertime, John T. and Richard Wright 1995 The Tabriz Hypothesis: The Dragon and Related Floral Carpets, Asian Art: the Second Hali Annual, London, pp.30-53.

• I often use John as an example of the top rung of collectable dealers. His knowledge, taste, and expertise is impeccable. I occasionally disagree with him for instance I totally disagree with his Tabriz Dragon Rug theory. However that is a small matter compared to all the points I agree and admire John's scholarship on.

• "New Realities" --Walter Denny, HALI magazine

• The Terminology Tangle: Another View, by Marla Mallett

• Review Caucasian Carpets and Covers

• Orange Dye, John Wertime, and Shahsavan Bags

• Persian Varamin Area Shahsevan Ru-korsi

• Shahsavan Mafrash Panel

• Abstract Art/Ancestral Visions Bijar Lion Mat

• The Wertime Konya Area Sleeping Rug (yatak)