Design, Structure, Technology and Terminology

Advanced Bibliography

Bellinger, Louisa
1961 Repeats in Silk-Weaving in the Near East, Textile Museum Workshop Notes 24 , pp.1-4.

Fraser, David W.
1989 A Guide to Weft-Twining and Related Structures with Interacting Wefts. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reath, Nancy A. and Eleanor B. Sachs
1937 Persian Textiles and their Techniques from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries Including a System for General Textile Classification. New Haven: Pennsylvania Museum of Art.

Rowe, Ann Pollard
1984 After Emery: Further Considerations of Fabric Classification and Terminology, Textile Museum Journal 23, pp. 53 - 71.

1985 The Woven Structures of European Shawls in The Textile Museum Collection, The Textile Museum Journal 24, pp. 55-59.

1996 In Search of a Classification of Textile Techniques, CIETA Bulletin, vol. 73, 1995-1996, pp. 123-139 [a critical study of Seiler-Baldinger 1995].

Seiler-Baldinger, Annemarie
1979 Classification of Textile Techniques. Ahmedabad, India: Calico Museum of Textiles. [more recent edition by Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington]

Sonday, Milton
1987 Pattern and Weaves: Safavid Lampas and Velvet, in Carol Bier, ed. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (16th - 19th Centuries). The Textile Museum, Washington, pp. 57-83.

Speiser, Noemi
1983 The Manual of Braiding. Basel.

Wertime, John
1980 A Checklist of Flat-Woven Structures Found in Village and Nomadic Weavings from the Near East and Central Asia, Rug News, 2/3 (September), pp. 2-8.

1981 Weft-Wrapping and Nomadic and Village Flat-Woven Textiles from the Near East and Central Asia, In Cathryn Cootner, ed. Flat-Woven Textiles: The Arthur D. Jenkins Collection. Washington: The Textile Museum. Pp. 175 - 191;

A Brief Introduction to the Woven Structures Found in the Jenkins Collection, pp. 193 - 199; A Checklist of Flat-woven Structures Found in Village and Nomadic Weavings from the Near East and Central Asia, pp. 200 - 203; A Note on Describing the Structures of Woven Fabrics Patterned by Supplementary Wefts, p. 203.

1983 A New Approach to the Structural Analysis of the Pile Rug; Some Proposals vis a vis Murray Eiland's Oriental Rugs and Chinese and Exotic Rugs, Oriental Rug Review, 3/3 (June), PP. 12 - 16.

1984 The Principal Types and Structures of Kurdish Weavings in Northeastern Iran, in Robert Biggs, ed. Discoveries from Kurdish Looms. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University. Pp. 30 - 35.

1984 Coming to Grips with the Kurdish Weaving Tradition: A Typological and Structural Approach, Oriental Rug Review, (March), pp. 5 - 8.

1985 Analyzing and Describing Flat-Woven Structures, Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies I, pp. 301 -304.

Compiled 12/2/88 by Carol Bier