Textile Arts of the Islamic World
Working Bibliographies
Eastern Hemisphere Curatorial Department
The Textile Museum Washington, DC
These working bibliographies do not pretend to be comprehensive or complete.
They were compiled over the years in response to public inquiry and for exhibition
planning, docent-training, and public programing. As our technological capabilities
improve, we hope to make revisions on a regular basis.
It is our intent to share these working bibliographies so as to provide introductory
materials to anyone interested in pursuing studies of textile arts of the Islamic
world.
We welcome your corrections and contributions.
Carol Bier, Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections
Mary Mallia, Librarian, The Arthur D. Jenkins Library
Notes and Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the following individuals whose efforts contributed to the development
of these working bibliographies:
Karen Ayers, Lorna Carmel, Paul Daskarolis, Judy Frater, Jenny Goodhue, Mehrdad
Izady, Ph.D., Gregor Kalas, Sumru Belger Krody, Mary Anderson McWilliams, Bethany
Mendenhall, Elisabeth Mikosch, and Jessica Sloane.
Special thanks to Sumru Belger Krody in preparing this revised set of working
bibliographies.
Most of the materials cited are available in The Arthur D. Jenkins Library, a
non-circulating research library at The Textile Museum.
Please address comments to: Eastern Hemisphere Curatorial
Department
The Textile Museum, 2320 S Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
These materials are made available for educational use.
Please credit The Textile Museum.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Note: Working bibliographies are arranged by cultural and topical categories. Some categories are further subdivided in the bibliographies.
1.0 Rugs and Carpets
1.1 Oriental Carpets: An Introduction
1.2 Caucasus
1.3 Central Asia (primarily Turkmen)
1.4 China (including East Turkestan)
1.5 Egypt
1.5a Cairene Carpets (Mamluk and Ottoman)
1.5b Geometry and Design
in the Carpets of Egypt, 1450-1750
1.6 India and Iran
1.6a Indian Carpets
1.6b Classical Carpets of Iran and India
1.7 Iran
1.7a Persian Carpets
1.7b Baluch Rugs and Ethnography
1.7c Zilu
1.8 Morocco
1.9 Spain
1.10 Turkey
1.10a Turkish Carpets
1.10b Kurdish Rugs
1.10c Kurdish Reed Screen
1.11 Tent Bands
1.12 Flatweaves
1.13 Prayer Rugs
1.14 Felt
2.0 Textiles and Garments
2.1 Africa
2.2 Albania
2.3 Central Asia
2.3a Suzani: Embroideries from
the Oases of Central Asia
2.3b Bukhara: Traditional Weavings
from Pre-Soviet Central Asia
2.4 South Asia
2.4a Folk Textiles of Northeast India
2.4b Pakistani Embroidery
2.4c Theory - Anthropology/Folk Art
2.4d Supplementary Sources - Ethnography
2.4e Indian-Pakistani Folk Embroideries
2.4f Indian-Pakistani Folk Embroideries (General)
2.4g Indian Embroidery
2.4h India Trade Cloths
2.5 Iran
2.5a Safavid and Qajar Rugs, Textiles And Garments
2.5b Later Persian Textiles
2.6 Kashmir Shawls
2.7 Morocco: Traditional Urban
Embroidery
2.8 Ottoman Empire
2.8a Ottoman Textiles, Garments, and Carpets
2.8b Ottoman Embroideries
2.8c Istanbul: Yesterday and Today
2.9 Palestine [under development]
2.10 Yemen: Yemeni Cotton Ikats
3.0 Related Topics
3.1 Byzantine Textiles [under development]
3.2 Late Roman/Coptic Textiles
3.2a Coptic Textiles (1980-1997)
3.2b Coptic Textiles (Recent Publications)
3.3 Sasanian Textiles
3.4 Tiraz
3.5 Medieval Islamic Textiles
3.6 Ancient Near Eastern Textiles and Technology
3.6a Traditional Textile Technology/Spinning (Antiquity/Near East)
3.6b Textile Arts of Antiquity (Ancient Near East
and the Pre-Classical World)
3.6c Textile Arts of the Ancient Near East
3.7 China Trade
3.8 Rag rugs [planned]
3.9 European carpets [planned]
4.0 Textile Structures and Technologies
4.1 Design, Structure, Technology, Terminology - Introduction
4.2 Design, Structure, Technology, Terminology - Advanced
4.3 Drawloom-Weaving and Technology
4.4 Tablet and Card-Weaving
4.5 Looms and Weaving Technologies
5.0 Symmetry and Pattern
5.1 Islamic Art: Studies of Plane Symmetry
5.2 Pattern: Construction and Visual Analysis
5.3 Symmetry Studies
5.4 Pattern in Oriental Carpets [under development]
