EARLY CARPETS AND TAPESTRIES ON THE EASTERN SILK ROAD

Author: Gonick, Gloria
Title: EARLY CARPETS AND TAPESTRIES ON THE EASTERN SILK ROAD
Publication: Antique Collectors' Club, 2016

Description: 172 pages.

New cloth bound in dust jacket.

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.

Seller ID: 19600

EARLY CARPETS AND TAPESTRIES ON THE EASTERN SILK ROAD. Gloria Gonick
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