Author: Lee Yu-kuan
Title: Art Rugs from Silk Route and Great Wall Areas
Description: Tokyo. Oriental House Limited. 1980. First edition. Folio. Hardcover. New in original cardboard box. New. 284 Pages, 123 colour photographs and 26 in black and white. "This book represents an accumulation of information acquired personally by one who has specialized in the art of Chinese rugs for the last fifty years" (author). Elaborate treatise of Chinese rugs with chapters on fundamentals, techniques colors, designs, usage, identification, and figures, the makers of rugs in antiquity, and maps identifying origin of the rugs. Illustrated with 123 mostly color plates of rugs followed by a chapter on the various types of production, e.g. felt, flat weaves, silk pile rugs and K'e-ssu, wool pile and Royal and civilian rugs with references to the images presented on the plates. Includes 15 appendixes and a bibliography.

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