Sadly we didn't get copies of OCTS7 until after the new year but we would have certainly included it on our 11 Books from 2011. I won't tell you what I would have excluded to keep the number 11. Check out these stats:
Farnham, Thomas J. and Daniel Shaffer ed. Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies VII: Selected Papers from ICOC X, Washington 2003 and ICOC XI, Istanbul 2007 International Conference on Oriental Carpets Norfolk, UK 2011 345 color plates 49 black and white 9 tables 200 pp 8.25 x 11.75 Paperback in New condition $95
Articles include:
- "Textile Cultures of Syria: Palmyra, Mamluks and Bedouin" by Murray L. Eiland III
- “Beyond the Carpet Design Revolution: Perspectives on 15th-century Carpet History" by Walter Denny
- “End Finishes of Topkapi Palace Museum Prayer Rugs" by Serife Atlihan
- “Design and Influence in the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Spanish Pomegranate Carpet" by Aimee Froom
- “Ghost Story: Vestiges of a vanished Turkish carpet design seen in some 16th-and 17th-century European embroidered and pile carpets" by Sarah B. Sherrill
- “Tulips to Roses: Changing Trends in Ottoman Embroidery" by Sumru Belger Krody
- “Large, Larger, Largest... Large Medallion Suzanis in German Collections" by Christian Erber
- “Hunting Imagery in Kaitag Embroideries from Daghestan: Origins, Influences, and Evolution" by Susan Scollay
- “The Pazyryk Carpet: A Stylistic Appraisal ff The Deep-Frozen Treasure From Kurgan Number Five in The High Altai" by Michael A. Hann
- “The Marby Rug" by Margareta Nockert
- “Polonaise Carpets in Baroque Rome" by Irene Sabatini
- “Carpets in Polish Paintings" by Beata Biedronska-Slota
- “Do Not Believe Everything You Read: Early Indian, 'Portuguese' and Pashmina-Pile Mughal Carpets and the Importance of Original Documentation" by Steven Cohen
- “A Structural Study of The Transylvanian Group and its Implications For Attributions to Anatolian Carpet Production Centers" by Stefano Ionescu and Ali Riza Tuna
- “Tudoc's Coupled-Column Prayer Rug Fragment: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Original Design" by Mircea Dunca and Luiza Gherghinescu
- “After the Safavids: Khorasan Carpets of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Hadi Maktabi
- “New Perspectives for Two Prestigious Carpet Collections: The Louvre Museum and Les Arts Decorarifs, Paris" by Susan Day
- “Carpets And Kilims in the Tokat Dervish Lodge Foundation Museum" by Suzan Baybaktaro—Lu
- “Mysteries of the Misplaced Mamluk Revisited: Mid-18th-Century Aubusson 'Mamluk' Carpets" by Sarah B. Sherrill
- “Studio Style - The Use of Carpets and Textiles in Historicist Era Painters' Studios in Munich: The Reception of the Oriental Carpet in Europe in the Second Half of the 19th Century" by Michael Buddeberg
- “The Compartment Group of Middle Amu Darya Pile Rugs and the Bactrian Carpet-Making Tradition" by Elena Tsareva
- “Dervish and Sufi Costume in the Topkapi Palace Collection" by Hulya Tezcan.
