Qarajeh to Quba: Rugs and Flatweaves from East Azarbayjan and the Transcaucasus

Raoul E. Tschebull

Qarajeh to Quba: Rugs and Flatweaves from East Azarbayjan and the Transcaucasus
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Hali Publications Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 August 2019
Pages
224
ISBN
9781898113614

Qarajeh to Quba: Rugs and Flatweaves from East Azarbayjan and the Transcaucasus

Raoul E. Tschebull

This book features the collector/author’s well informed views about a careful selection of mainly 19th century knotted pile carpets and flatwoven covers in various techniques from his own extensive collection, which has been built up over a period of more than four decades. Many of the rugs, which are all of the highest graphic and artistic quality, have been acquired without recourse to the open market and are therefore previously unseen and unpublished. Raoul (Mike) Tschebull’s long experience in the genre allows insights that go beyond the conventional wisdom of the traditional antique oriental carpet bazaar. His collecting career began under the aegis of one of the great US collectors of a previous generation, Joseph V. McMullan. This beautifully illustrated book will include a general introduction to the Caucasus/Azerbaijan area setting the context for the focused presentation of some 70 examples, each with the author’s comments about design, structure, technique, attribution and dating. It accompanies possible lectures at Museum conventions, and Carpet & Textile Society meetings in the USA. AUTHOR: A former banker, the author/collector Raoul E. Tschebull is well known in international rug collecting circles for his first publication, a modest but highly influential mainly black and white 1971 exhibition catalogue of Kazak rugs, as well as numerous articles in HALI magazine and frequent lectures on the subject. He is a past recipient of the Near Eastern Art Research Center’s Joseph V. McMullan Award for Scholarship and Stewardship in the field of Islamic Carpets. SELLING POINTS: . Contains many previously unseen and unpublished pieces from a highly regarded collection . The author/collector offers his considered opinions . Book design by a top UK graphic designer, Misha Anikst, with photographs by the USA’s leading specialist carpet/textile photographer, Don Tuttle 150 colour images

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