Artist and photographer Rudi Molacek has assembled, with an artist’s eye, an idiosyncratic collection of more than 300 Tibetan carpets, rugs, mats, seat-, bench- and saddle-covers. Between the 15th and the 20th centuries they were woven for both sacred and secular purposes by Tibetan nomads and villagers, and in the shadow of monastic centres across the Tibetan Plateau. The first volume presents Tibetan rugs intended for sitting, sleeping, meditation and horse riding, as well as those made to furnish the region’s prestigious temples and monasteries ― an expression of the relative wealth and status of their owners. The second volume focuses on a group of so-called ‘Wangden’ rural rugs, characterised by a unique weaving technique, some of which have been the subject of an illuminating exercise in radiocarbon dating to establish the antiquity of the tradition.
The Tiger Rugs Of Tibet Leather Binding
Mimi Lipton
Hayward Gallery London
Carpet, The
Enza Milanesi
Tauris Parke Books London
Tribal Rugs A Complete Guide To Nomadic And Village Carpets
Jame Opie
Bulfinch Press
Oriental Carpets
Volkmar Gantzhorn
Taschen
Dream Weavers Textile Art From The Tibetan Plateau
Thomas Cole
Times Editions Marshall Cavendish
The Nepali Carpet
Available Not
Central Carpet Industries Association
Indian Carpets And Floor Coverings
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
All India Handicrafts Board
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