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Issue41,Volume 10, Number5, September/October 1988

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Editor Alan Marcuson

Deputy Editor Daniel Shaffer

Assistant Editors Maria Schlatter. Elizabeth Barratt

Editorial Assistant

Gwyneth Francis

Contributing Editors Ian Bennett. Andrea Mareehal Donald King. Steven Cohen. Yanni Petsopoulos. ParvizTanavoli. James Beid

John Mills

Consultant Editors Robert Pinner. Michael Franses

Art Editor

I .iz Dixon

Assistant Art Editors David Vi hvte. Norma Brindle

Art Assistant Daron Lowe

Subscriptions Manager

Ashley Spinks

Distribution Manager

Stuart McGeachin

General Administration

Joyce Bentlev -Smith

Receptionist E lle n N ichols

Picture Librarian

John Stroud

Advertisement Sales Manager

Nicholas Fripp

Advertisement Sales Executives Sebastian Ghandchi. Tom Robson

Advertisement Sales Assistant

Barbara Lindsay Ford

Publisher & Managing Director

Bobbv Marcuson

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DISPLAY ADVEHTISEMENTS................................................................................. 1-86

EDITORIAL..............................................................................................................................I LETTERS................................................................................................................................. 3 FRAGMENTS...........................................................................................................................5 FORUM.....................................................................................................................................11 t nsolicited responses to material published in i 1A1.1. including a report by 1larald Bdhmer and Nevm Enez on the dyes in one of the prayer rugs recently published byJ.M. Rogers and Hit lye Tezcan in the Topkapi Carpets volume.

Pre-Columbian Textiles CONNOISSEUR S CHOICE......................................................................................... 14 By James W. Reid A remarkable embroidered mantle led IIALI s ( 'ontributing Editor, an expert on Pre-Columbian textiles, to describe the glories of Peru's Pacific coast and the sumptuous beauty of Paracas/Nazca textiles.

African Textiles CLOTIIS OF THE GOLD COAST.................................................................................16 Bv \ enice Lamb Recent interest in IIest African textiles is often centered on the cloths woven by theAsante and Ewe people of Ghana. The world's leading expert on the subject examines and clarifies the very real differences between the wea rings of these two tribal groups.

Pre-Columbian Textiles ELOQUENT OBJECTS FROM ASACRED WORLD

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BvJames \Y. Reid The author of a major new work on the 'Textile Irt of Ancient Peru' illuminates some of the mysteries of Pre-Columbian Andean life and beliefs with his discussion of an extraordinary group of ritual textiles and objects.

Safavid Carpets ISFAHAN STRAPWORK7 CARPETS.......................................................................34 By Ian Bennett IIAL1 's Contributing Editor discusses a small group of / 7 th century' carpets with a distinctive design of broad arabesque bands, which he attributes to Isfahan, despite the widespread acceptance of an Indian provenance by many carpet scholars.

Tibetan Rugs IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT

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BvDaniel Shaffer The first ever exhibition of Tibetan Tiger Rugs, which brings together all but a few of the known examples in IIestern collections.

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