Early Carpets and Tapestries on the Eastern Silk Road:

Name: Early Carpets and Tapestries on the Eastern Silk Road:
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ISBN: 9781851498109

ISBN-10: 1851498109

ISBN-13: 9781851498109

Edition: 2015

Authors: Gloria Gonick

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A mystifying group of carpets and tapestries created along the Silk Route over five hundred years ago is the topic of this richly illustrated book. The carpets and tapestries with riveting yet puzzling designs have been preserved in closed treasure houses in the former Japanese capital since the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. They are brought out only one day a year for a Shinto-Buddhist festival procession and quickly returned to storage. This book is about their shrouded origin in China, the pariahs who wove them, the meaning of their obscure motifs, and the reasons for the secrecy continuing to surround their exhibition.Early Carpets and Tapestries on the Eastern Silk Road is written…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 192
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English