Notes on Peter Saunders

• Peter Saunders is a highly talented and brilliant rug scholar whose brilliance is equaled by his unconventional and somewhat eccentric joie de vie.
• Peter consulted to Christie's on their rug catalogue for years.
• Saunders, Peter E. Tribal Visions
• Oriental Rug Review
  • Saunders, Peter E., "A White Ground Small Pattern 'Holbein' Rug in a c. 1500 Northern Italian Painting," Oriental Rug review XIII/4/28-29
  • A White Ground Small Pattern "Holbein" Rug in a c. 1500 Northern Italian Painting, by Peter E. Saunders
  • The Economic History of Turkey: 1800-1914, Issawi, Charles, Review by Saunders, Peter: VI/190-192; 229-231
• Munkacsi, Kurt, David d'Heurle and Peter Saunders: Bigger is Better, Main Carpets of the Turkoman
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  A new book from Peter Saunders! Definite must buy if you are interested in Turkmen rugs.
  
  New York 2003, 30 CP 30 color figures 68 pp. 6 x 5 CD-ROM in New condition. Requires a Macintosh or PC with a CD-ROM drive and Adobe Acrobat reader (available free on their website). Fabulous collection of Turkoman main carpets. Originally published to coincide with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets in the spring of 2003, Bigger is Better - Main Carpets of the Turkmen is dynamic in its own right. An art book on CD, this catalog of exquisite Turkmen main carpets offers the viewer the capability of zooming in on any detail of the thirty rugs using Adobe Acrobat, the .PDF file format. Not only does this new format break the mold of art and carpet publications, but the exploration of one type of Turkmen weaving with tribal attributions, short descriptions, pointed references, and detailed technical analyses will establish this CD as a reference work of great value with an appeal to a wide audience."
  http://www.rugbooks.com/catalog/product_view.php?prod_id=BOOKS005373I

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