TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wearden,Jennifer Mary
TI  - Decorative textiles from Arab and Islamic cultures: selected works from the Al Lulwa collection 
SN  - 9781907372872 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Paul Holberton Publishing
KW  - Textile fabrics
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Technology
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Specialized
N2  - The strengths of this collection are concentrated in the textile production of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which, thanks to the basically conservative nature of textile technique and design, preserve and continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world. They are important in an assessment of Islamic textiles both for their quality and as illustrations of survival and adaptation in a major industry. Their heritage reaches back well over a thousand years, even though their very high perishability means that for the earlier part of the tradition our knowledge is reliant very largely on written sources. These, however, attest to the superb quality and quantity of textiles at the courts of the period
ER  -