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7he International Magazine of I me Carpets and Textiles
Issue 44, Volume 11, Number 2, April 1989
E d i to r Alan Marcuson Deputy E d i to r Daniel Shaffer A ssistant E d i to rs Maria Schlatter. Elizabeth Barratl
E d i to r ia l A ssistant Gwyneth Francis C o n tr ib u tin g E d i to rs Ian Bennett. Andrea Mareehal Donald King, Steven Cohen, Yanni Petsopoulos
Parviz ranavoh. James Reid John Mills, Alberto Boralevi
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EDITORIA1....................................................................................................................... I The controversial proposed restructuring oj London's I ictoria A- \lbert Museum and the curatorial redundancies it entails have ja r reaching implications fo r the future o f scholarship and the Museum's collections. LETTERS ....................... 5 FRAGMENTS............................................................................................................... 9 FO R UM ......................................................................................................................... 11 A / 7th centun Spanish painting depicting what appears to be a Turkish hevbe raises questions about their assumed 19th centun origin; and discussion o f a relief carving at the temple o f Luxor which shows what maybe the precursor o f the chintainani design.
Central A sia n 7ex tiles CONNOISSEUR S CHOICE
BvJohannes Violff An outstanding Uzbek silk ikat hanging is the choice o f a senior Federal Judge in West Germany'who collects Anatolian ki/ims and rare textiles.
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Fast Turkestan Carpets CARPETS OF THE BIG I IO R S E .......................................................................... 16 ByPeter Bichler In apaper originally given at the Leningrad ( inference on Central Asian Carpets last May, a well-known Austrian rug enthusiast discusses the curious group o f some f i f t y ( hinese-style inscribed carpets commissioned in the early 1930s by the warlord GeneralMa ( 'hung- Yin and his officers in the Yarkand bazaar.
Persian Tribal Carpets CARPETS OF THE KHANS P a r t 2
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ByIan Bennett The fin a l part of our ChieJ Contributing Editor's tour de force on the inscribed carpets of the Bakhtiari Great khans. / lere he focuses on the khans' rise to national power in the late 19th century and their fa l l from grace in the 20th. with an examination o f the tribe's migratory way of life.
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Nepalese Em broidery ■ A NEW CHRONOLOGY......................................................................................... 30 ByRosemary Crill Radio-carbon dating techniques have come to the fore in recent years as invaluable aids in the proper attribution of early textiles. In this instance, a curator in the Indian Department at the I ictoria A-Albert Museum discusses a rare group o f Nepalese embroideries with Vaishnavite iconography, which C -l-t tests have shown are substantially earlier than had been supposed.
