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Oriental Rug
Books Authors Beginning with R
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 If I lost it I would not replace
it.
Of some use
but not one I would go out of my way to find.
Useful.
Very useful and one I would recommend
strongly.
A
very important or even the definitive work on the
subject. It does not have to be perfect but if I give it
5 stars and you are interested in that area then you
should own a copy.
Not Yet Rated - I haven't gotten to it
yet so if you wish to review it please feel free. There
is a limit to how many books I can read so it it is not
rated do not assume anything is wrong with the book. If
you disagree with any of my opinions write me and I may
annotate this list with your comments.
Rageth, J. & U. Hirsch. Fruhe Formen &
Farben. 1991,
Rageth, J., ed. Anatolische Kelims. 1990,
Rageth, Jurg ed.: Anatolische Kelims ; Basel: 1990.
Rageth, Jurg ed.: Anatolian Kilims and Radiocarbon
Dating ; Basel: 1999. 12 x 9.5, Papers presented at the
2nd Symposium on Anatolian kilims in Liestal,
Switzerland., 64 CP 183 b/w.
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This is a controversial book that makes a
strong case for early dating of Kelims on the
basis odf c-14 dating. . |
Ramazanoglu, Gulseren. Turkish Embroidery ; NY: 1976.
NY: 1976. 8 x 9, GWO 2332. Colors, patterns and stitches
are described for modern embroiders., 26 CP 60 b/w.
Ramirez, F. & Rolot, C. Tapis et Tissages Du
Maroc. 1995,
Raphaelian, H. M. The Hidden Language of Symbols in
Oriental Rugs ; New Rochelle: 1953.
Raphaelian, H.M. Rugs of Armenia, Their History and
Art ; New Rochelle, NY: 1960.
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Thomas N. Haining's translation of
Ratchnevsky's master piece is wonderful. Highly
readable and enjoyable. Very good index. You can
not really understand Islamic Art without
understanding the Mongol influence. This is a
excellent place to start. |
Rautenstengel, A. & Azadi, S. Studien Zur
Teppich-Kultur Der Turkmen. 1990,
Rautenstengel, A. and V. and Azadi, S.: Studies on
Turkoman Culture. Hilden: 1990.
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Fascinating older look at Indian Art from a
distinctly British viewpoint. In the style of the
British before the fall of the Empire. |
Rawson Cristopher and Walter Gardner: A
Dictionary of Dyes, Mordents and Other Compounds Used in
Dyeing and Calico Printing ; London: 1901. 6 x 9.
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Not a very impressive looking little book so
I shelved it for ages before looking at it. I
misjudged it because when I finally got around to
it I found it well written with good black and
white pictures. |
Reed, Christopher. Turkoman Rugs.
Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1966.
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Foreword by Joseph V. McMullan. This was the
book from an important early Turkmen rug show at
Harvard's Fogg Museum. This book has been
eclipsed by a wealth of latter material. In it's
day it was a five star book. |
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A rather dated general rug book that I do not
use much. |
Reeves, N. & Taylor, J. Howard Carter Before
Tutankamun. 1992, British Museum.
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This is an extremely valuable historical
resource on the tribes of Iran in the Safavid
period. This is a very controversial book because
of the political infighting when this book was
released rather than the content of the book. I
was scared to use this book as a source but I
called one of the top anthropologists in the
field and found out the real story on this book
as a source. |
Reid, J.W. Textile Art of Peru. 1993,
Reinisch, H. Gabbeh. The Georges D. Bornet
Collection. 1986,
Reinisch, H. Saddle Bags/ Sattel Taschen. Graz,
Austria 1985. German/English.
Reinisch, H. Von Bagdad Nach Stambul. 1983,
Reswick, Irmfraud. Traditional Textiles of Tunisia ;
Los Angles: 1985.
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Although essentially a dealers’
inventory, this beautifully illustrated
exhibition catalogue of 80 rare, relatively
early, Turkmen carpets, provides a wonderful
sample of some of the best mid- to top-range
Turkoman carpets available to the collector
today. As is common with rug books, the strong
point is the pictures. All of the carpets are
illustrated in colour, most on a full page, with
brief notes on each. The collection is
particularly strong on Ersari main carpets –
fig 26 and 38 are personal favorites – but
provides a good sample of carpets from all of the
major weaving groups, bar the Salor. Both of the
Arabatchi main carpets illustrated deserve
particular note.
Reuben’s somewhat controversial views on
design evolution in Turkomen carpets are set out
in an all too brief introduction. Reuben hopes to
avoid the now discredited notion, once advanced
by Moshkova, that defeated Turkmen peoples
abandoned the gols used on their main carpets in
favor of those used by their conquerors. Instead,
based on design layout and symbolic origin,
Reuben suggests a distinction between main
carpets with gols and guls. The origin of the two
main Turkmen gols, the Gulli and Tauk Noska gols,
goes back hundreds of years, as opposed to the
more recent designs employed by settled or
semi-settled Turkmen. These latter are more
properly called guls.
Accordingly, Reuben divides Turkmen main
carpets into three groups. The first,
"strictly tribal carpets with tribal
gols", are gol carpets proper, that is,
their design consists of a several columns and
rows of gols separated by minor guls. The second
and third groups, by contrast, were woven by
settled and partially settled Turkic peoples,
using arrangements of guls as primary ornaments
instead. In this way, Reuben hopes to explain the
continued evolution as well as the juxtaposition
of older and newer symbols on carpets without
reliance on clearly inaccurate notions of
independent and subordinate tribes.
However Reuben offers little evidence to
support this argument, and, in the last resort,
it is not always clear how the distinction
between gol and gul (even assuming this is
accurate) allows us to understand and periodise
carpet design. Distinctions between tribal and
settled peoples are anthropologically dubious at
best, and understate the reciprocal influences
which rural and urban, nomadic and settled, and
indeed, relatively homogenous and cosmopolitan
communities had on each other. This is
particularly evident with Ersari carpets, most of
which fall into the second and third of
Reuben’s categories. Personally, I am more
convinced by Pinner’s more recent arguments
in favor of multiple sources of design evolution.
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Revault, Jacques. Designs and Patterns from North
African Carpets and Textiles. NY: 1973.
Rhie, M.M. & Thurman, R.A.F. Wisdom and
Compassion: the Sacred Art of Tibet. 1991,
Riboud, K., Desroches, J.-P., Myers, M., Simcox, J.,
Jera-Bezard, R., and Lorquin, A. Soieries Bouddhiques.
Rice, David Talbot. Islamic Art. New
York: Praeger World of Art 1965.
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A very solid general work on Islamic art. I
like this one. This was a help in building my
background information. |
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It would have been hard to understand the
dynamics of Mughal art if I did not have this
book. The part dealing with the role of Uzbeks in
Mughal India is very important. The interplay
between the Shia and the Sunni and the rivalry
between the Persian and the Turanian elements in
Mughal politics comes through in this book as it
does in no other that I found. |
Ripley, Mary C. The Oriental Rug Book ; NY: 1904.
Ripley, Mary Churchill. The Chinese Rug Book ; NY:
1927.
Ripley, M.C. The Oriental Rug Book. 1936
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