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Notes on Siawosch Azadi

Left to right Siawosch Azadi myself (Barry O'Connell) and Mr. Parviz Alami.

Left to right Siawosch Azadi myself (Barry O'Connell) and Mr. Parviz Alami. This picture was taken on a break from the The Second Persian Carpet Festival Kish Iran 2004

Siawosch Azadi is an author and rug dealer in Hamburg, West Germany.
Attended school in Teheran and University of Hamburg in philosophy and economics.
Father was a carpet collector.
Opened a carpet gallery in Hamburg in 1966.
"Colours in Oriental Carpets," Heimtex, 1967, Nos. 8, 9, 1 0 and 12 and 1968, Nos. 1, 4 and 6.
"Pile Woven and Flatweave Horse Covers," Heimtex, 1974, No. 1 1.
"Turkoman Rugs and the Ethnographical Significance of their Ornaments", Wales, 1975, translated by Robert Pinner.
"Persische Teppiche, (with P. W. Meister), Catalogue of the exhibition in Hamburg and Frankfurt, 1971.
"Persian Carpets," Catalogue, the Carpet Museum, Teheran, 1977.
"Some Methodological Aspects and Problems of Research into Oriental Carpets," Hali, 1978, No. 3.
Azadi, Siawosch. Carpets In The Baluch Tradition
Siawosch Azadi, "A Yomud Subgroup". Washington DC: ICOC 1980.
Andrews, P.A., Azadi, S. U., Rautenstengel, A. & U., Sienknecht, H. Ch. Wie Blumen In Der Wuste. 1993.
Azadi, S. & Andrews, P.A. Mafrash. 1985, German/English
Azadi, S. and M. Grothaus: Knotenpunkt. Vienna: 1991.
Azadi, S. Mystik Der Gabbeh. 1987,
Azadi, S. Mystik Der Gabbeh. Hamburg 1987. German text.
Azadi, Siawosch and Peter A. Andrews: Mafrash, Woven Transport Pack from the Shahsavan ; Berlin: 1985.
Azadi, Siawosch Turkoman Carpets and the Ethnographic Significance of their Ornaments. Fishguard (Wales) Crosby Press.
Rautenstengel, A. and V. and Azadi, S. Studies on Turkoman Culture Hilden 1990.
Baluch Rugs, Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3, Pp. 632ff. 1989