Richard E. Wright - A Compilation of Notes Concerning the Nature and Origins of Textiles

Today's technology makes easy the distribution of brief research notes, thus this web site. Its contents consist of:

Caucasia materials either absent or not fully developed in Caucasian Carpets and Covers, 1995

data having to do with Turkmen and Central Asia weaving

old Research Reports (1983 -- 1992) on some topics other than Caucasia or Central Asia

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Caucasia	Central Asia
Village of Marazy* New Schoolmaster and Kuba* New Tiflis 1889* New Silk in Transcaucasia Early Days at the Loom in Transcaucasia Azerbaidzhan Rugs in the 1920's The Tats of Kuba Kustar’ program in Caucasia Carpets in Azerbaijan Caucasia: A Tale of Two Carpet Literatures M. D. Isaev Carpet from Shusha City Fourth Azerbaijan Conference	Recovery Begins* New Timur and the Uzbegs* New A Personal Note: Edward A. Allworth Carpet-making in Uzbekistan Turkmen Carpets and Central Asian Art Yurts Khirghiz Caspian Turkmens Central Asian Dyes Rugs of the Southern Rim Bukhara and Its Ersari The Khiva Khanate and the Chodor The Akhal Oasis The Tamga Reflections on the Engsi Artifacts On Felt
Anatolia	Elsewhere
Broussa Silk A Cairo Manufactory Turkish Carpets G. A. Olivier Constantinople: Textiles and Religion Eighteenth Century Turkish Floor Coverings The Smyrna Rug Trade Shavrov Goes to Turkey Visits to St. Sophia A Venerated Carpet A Trade Datum	Rug Travelogue � Persia A Moscow Kilim of 1891 Carpets at Ardebil J. P. Tournefort Karbala Stones Kerman Revival Tiumen Rugs Tomb Textiles Jean Baptiste Tavernier The Mahur Shrine Carpet Mats and Gifts to Mecca Of Mosques and Mats Mosque Floor Covering Weaving in Bessarabia Turn-of-the-Century Persian Weaving Visits to the Ardebil Shrine A Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan and Persia Yazd On Books

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