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Scaramuzza, Carlo ed.: Kaitag, Art for Life: Embroidered Textiles from Daghestan / Kaitag, arte per la vita. Tessuti ricamati del Daghestan
Milano 2010 110 Color Plates 154 pp. 9.5 x 10.75 Hardback in New condition. Museo di Storia Naturale exhibition catalog. "A Selected Public Kaitag Exhibition from European Collections. English/Italian text.








Benguiat, V. and L.: Rare Ancient Rugs, The V. and L. Benguiat Collection
New York 1932 27 Black and White 58 pp. 8 x 11 Paperback in Very Good condition. Slight chipping to edges and spine. GWO 104. Sale #3968. O'Bannon says, "The April auction to liquidate the Benguiats indebtedness to the American Art Association. Most are classical carpets, many now in museum collections." From the title page: Rare Eastern Carpets of the XVI and XVII Centuries, A Magnificent Royal Persian Animal Carpet, the 'Marquand' Imperial Persian Rug, 'Polonaise' Gold- and Silver-Woven Court Rugs, Royal Ispahans, Oushaks, and Imperial Lahores, Silk-Woven Persian and Indian Examples, Egyptian, 'Damascus', and Chinese Rugs, A Rare Louis XIV Savonnerie Carpet, A XVI Century Veneto-Perse Velvet Fragment, Also Spanish Renaissance Examples.





Durdyeva, T.K. [T.K. Durdyyewa]: Gudratly Turkmen Halysy / Magnificent Turkmen Carpets
Ashkhabad 2006 176 Color Plates 44 Black and White Figures 239 pp. 9 x 12 Hardback in Very Good condition. Many of the examples are antique rugs and trappings in the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashkhabad. Includes several modern pictorial carpets as well as the world's largest handmade Turkmen carpet. English, Turkmen and Russian text.