RugBooks.com is Green!

For years we've been ahead of the Green curve. We deal primarily in previously owned books (reuse is one of the "3 Rs") and use recycled shipping materials (cardboard boxes come in and often the same ones go out. Ditto with bubble wrap. Don't be surprised to see egg cartons padding your books either). Our work area is lit with compact fluorescents and we only go to the post office 3 days a week thus saving energy. Our shipping department and book repair laboratory are both in-house. We are green and it saves us green.

Modern Textile Art

If contemporary fabric art turns your head and names like Lia Cook and Arturo Alonzo Sandoval send you atwitter check out our new Contemporary Fabric Art section.

New new new!

Haven't had time to post. Madly adding new books. If you're into the textile arts of Indonesia, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and/or Central America check out the new titles I've been adding. -Wes

Talismans of the Turkoman: Traditions of a Warrior Tribe

The Coronado Historical Association's Museum and History of Art is holding an exhibition March 14-May 26, 2008 on Turkmen textiles and jewelry. The exhibit is compiled from a single private collection and this will be the first time most of the pieces have been on display to the public.

Coronado island is located in the San Diego Bay and connected to the mainland by the Coronado-San Diego Bay Bridge and hwy 75.

Belmont, Mass.

I know it's a little "level one" but I'm a sucker for Oriental rugs, textiles, etc. having their place in Web 2.0 Here's an article from the Belmont Citizen-Herald with a YouTube video at the bottom.

Suzanis, GOBs and European textiles

We've gone through our inventory recently and repriced hundreds of European rug and textile books here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

A Kentucky rug store was told they can't be perpetually going out of business.

Old uses for new suzanis.

Mud Mee

We have just listed an interesting book in Thai on mud mee textiles. Mud mee weaving is a weft ikat technique using a dye resistance on the yarn before weaving. The effect from this is to produce different shades of colors. Threads, when spooled on the weft and woven, create a pattern, which creates the effect of mud mee.