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The Story of Carpets: A Buyer's Guide

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Author does not mention Bokharas, a major design for centuries, (copied by many)except in one small picture. Kurdish tribal rugs are not covered, even though they are becoming increasingly rare. (Try to find one and you'll be steered to a Turkish or Afghan rug!)I expected more detail in the Bidjar design, for example. Most pictures are of older rare rugs--not a great help when looking in todays shops.There is no mention of the Pakistan and Indian rugs of today. He should tell the reader that these are also decent "oriental" rugs.

Story of Carpets is one of the few excellent works done by a native Iranian, educated and now living in The United Kingdom. I have seen and had so many books on Persian/Iranian carpets by Western scholars, but E. Sakhai's work is different . Because of short of space, I just recommend it to fine Persian carpet lovers to get this book and enjoy it for a long time.Well done my countryman,congratulations.
Ovaness Ovanessian.

I read this book twice and each time I was mesmerised by the fluency of the author on the subject of the Persian carpets in particular. This book is a very enlightening book in terms of information and vivid illustrations. It is full of fantstic pictures that must have cost the author a lot to produce the photographs.
I found the book totally informative and would recomment it to any body who wants to invest in Persian carpets.
Well done Essie Sakhai. I look forward to read your other books.