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Informationen zum Autor John Gillow has spent over thirty years studying, collecting and lecturing on textiles. His books include Arts and Crafts of India (with Ilay Cooper and Barry Dawson), Indian Textiles (with Nicholas Barnard), Traditional Indonesian Textiles , World Textiles (with Bryan Sentance) and African Textiles . Klappentext "Excellent . . . as colorful and as full of joie de vivre as a room full of Matisse paintings." --The World of Interiors Vorwort An unrivalled, comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey providing a wealth of information on the rich art of Islamic textiles Zusammenfassung This volume offers a sumptuously illustrated, region-by-region survey of textiles made, worn, used and displayed in every corner of the Islamic world. The text includes details of dozens of textile techniques, such as loom types, materials, forms of decoration and local specialities, while hundreds of glorious illustrations – including specially taken colour images of textiles on display, photographs of weavers and dyers in action, and rare historical material – constitute an astonishingly varied visual panorama that will appeal to collectors, travellers and anyone interested in Islamic culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE OTTOMAN WORLD Turkey • The Balkans | ISLAMIC SPAIN AND NORTH AFRICA Spain • Morocco • Algeria • Tunisia • Libya • Egypt | THE ARAB WORLD Syria • Palestine • Iraq • Saudi Arabia • Kuwait • Oman • Yemen | THE PERSIAN WORLD Iran • The Caucasus | CENTRAL ASIA Uzbekistan • Turkmenistan • Tajikistan • Kyrgyzstan • Afghanistan | THE MUGHAL WORLD India • Pakistan • Bangladesh | EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA China • Malaysia • Indonesia • The Philippines | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA East Africa • West Africa
