MILLER, DANIEL ED. - Auspicious Carpets: Tibetan Rugs and Textiles

Manila: Daniel Miller, 2009. Hardcover. Illustrated by 94 color plates 22 color and 23 black and white anthropological photographs; Quoted extensively in Thomas Wild's excellent article on Tibetan rugs in Carpet Collector 2/2017. Articles by Thomas L. Guta, Ted Worcester, Daniel Miller, Rupert Smith, Bob van Grevenbroek and Charles Gay. "More than just another book on rugs. With evocative images and insightful text it is as much an ethnography of the inhabitants of the Tibetan landscape -- the nomads who raise the sheep that produce one of the best carpet wools in the world and the weavers who fashion this wool into textiles and rugs -- as it is an introduction to the aesthetics of the Tibetan weaving and textile traditions." –Cover. [SORB CET-146]; 1.5; 160 pp.. New; 7 x 7 Hardback in New condition .