Dear Chalen and rug-fanatics,
>Where are you Mr. Alessandro of Italy? Owner of some Caucasian jems. >Please introduce us to some more of them please and...
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Barbara and Sam Gorden
gordsa@...
May 2, 2001 4:45 am
Dear Alessandro, As a dedicated lover of antique tribal rugs, I am happy if I have been of service to you. I recommend what I have written in my web page...
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Alessandro
shirvankuba@...
May 2, 2001 7:15 pm
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Alessandro
shirvankuba@...
May 3, 2001 12:07 am
Dear rug-fanatics,
here I am with a new Caucasian rug saga... I hope you'll stand my ravings! ;-)
Well! I've seen this rug a few days ago while I was...
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jboc@...
May 3, 2001 2:09 am
Hello Alessandro, Your English is certainly better than my Italian. I hope you are enjoying that long rug you were looking at. Thanks for the kind words. I...
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heightof@...
May 3, 2001 8:42 pm
Alessandro wrote to Sam: "thanks for the kind words. I know that your refined taste for tribal rugs is unquestionable, and I have ever envied your green...
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jboc
jboc@...
May 3, 2001 8:58 pm
Hello JoLynne, Before synthetic dyes the only good greens took a three step process. First the yarn had to be bathed in a mordant solution such as alum. Then ...
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Iain Stewart
webmaster@...
May 4, 2001 7:53 am
Hi Barry Nice to have you back. ... I always thought it was the Prophet's flag/battle standard that was green, and hence the respectful avoidance of its use in...
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Alex
amaio@...
May 4, 2001 8:05 am
[sorry if you have received this message twice, but I'm experiencing serious troubles with egroups, and as I think all problems are related to bad Yahoo...
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Alex
zakatalas@...
May 4, 2001 8:52 am
Hello Iain Nice to have you back. :-))))))))))) [CUT] ... just 2 rials??? Iain, you are a living dictionary! ;-) ... I think all the troubles are related to...
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R. John Howe
rjhowe@...
May 4, 2001 10:05 am
Mr. Stewart - I have not posted on rug-fanatics before (I tend to concentrate my energies on Turkotek) but I do think that it is useful to have a board such as...
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suzanii@...
May 4, 2001 11:39 am
hi all wow rug fanatics is fun again. what wonderful postings on green. i'm new to this stuff but i'm avidly reading eiland and eiland--at someone's...
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cfager@...
May 4, 2001 4:50 pm
Deal Iain, Thank you and Barry very much for taking the time to write about green. I have one of those Feraghans with celadon and I consider the corrosion a ...
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JoLynne W. Martinez
heightof@...
May 4, 2001 6:48 pm
Thanks, everyone, for answering my question ... and then some. Best wishes, JoLynne...
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jboc
jboc@...
May 4, 2001 8:59 pm
Hello Iain and everyone else, Iain, I am curious about your comments about celadon as a dye. My understanding is that is a shade of green. I found one...
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Robin S. Martinez
robin@...
May 4, 2001 10:40 pm
I can't add much on celadon as a dye, however, my main hobby is ceramic art, and celadon glazes are a staple of Asian pottery. As far as I know, celadon ...
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jboc
jboc@...
May 4, 2001 11:20 pm
Hello Robin, I have been wondering very much the same thing. Celadon for Chinese green ware is a recent term and the Chinese word for celadon pottery ...
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jboc
jboc@...
May 5, 2001 2:26 am
The Gordon Karabagh Hello Sam and Barbara, Thanks for the note. It is good to get back to discussing rugs again. I have embarked on a long term writing project...
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mahdi dyn
mahdi_dyn@...
May 6, 2001 6:43 pm
Hello all, May be it seems to be stupid, but can anyone tell me what is a suzani? I have traveled through Uzbekistan, Tadsjikestan, etc, so if you can explain...
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mahdi dyn
mahdi_dyn@...
May 6, 2001 7:05 pm
Hello I am born and have lived in Iran for 25 years. I don't agree with David Black, because already in 1985 there was production of rugs. About one week...
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jboc
jboc@...
May 6, 2001 7:40 pm
Hello Mahdi, Suzani is from the Persian word Suzan or Needle. So it is needlework as opposed to woven. Here in the West we generally call it embroidery. They ...
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Joseph Burke
jburke@...
May 7, 2001 12:02 am
Thanks for the input Mahdi... We never heard anything from David Black about this after Robinare was going to forward him my email. I've cc'd him on this...
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jboc
jboc@...
May 7, 2001 1:04 am
Hello JB, I think we need to clarify terms here. Somebody, perhaps John Thompson, adopted a usage that has stuck in what passes for Rug Studies. He made a ...
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Joseph Burke
jburke@...
May 7, 2001 2:03 am
Thanks very much for the clarification Barry... In summary it sounds to me that you are saying that a rug is considered a workshop piece only if it is made...
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Robinare
Robinare@...
May 7, 2001 11:01 am
Hi Joesph, I'll be seeing David Black this week and shall get him to read the email, he's a bit of a 'net luddite', and reply........ All the best Robin ... ...
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Steve Price
sprice@...
May 7, 2001 12:28 pm
Dear Joseph, Jon Thompson's book, "Oriental Carpets - from the Tents, Villages and Workshops of Asia" introduced to Rugdom a new way of classifying rugs, one...
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cfager@...
May 7, 2001 4:15 pm
Some more regarding workshops v. cottages: I recently benefited from seeing Roger Cavano (Carpets of the Inner Circle, San Francisco) present an outstanding,...
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Barbara and Sam Gorden
gordsa@...
May 7, 2001 7:12 pm
... From: Barbara and Sam Gorden To: rug-fanatics Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: Art You Can Walk On While visiting my dentist, I came across an...
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Joseph Burke
jburke@...
May 7, 2001 8:11 pm
Steve... Thanks very much for the further clarification..... (comments interspersed below) ... thank you for that information... I went to www.bookfinder.com...
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mahdi dyn
mahdi_dyn@...
May 7, 2001 8:22 pm
Hello Barry, thank you for refreshing my memory about my language! As an answer to the question about suzanis: nomad people still make suzanis, for their...
