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Anatolian carpets have been a part of European culture since the 14th Century, and they are among the most sought-after of all carpets by museums and collectors today. The Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets takes a fresh and concise look at Anatolian carpets dating from the 16th to the 20th century. It investigates the ways in which artistic traditions in Anatolia developed from roots in a "classical" period of carpet design, whose masterpieces have exerted a compelling influence on many generations of Anatolian weavers in subsequent centuries...

Drawing heavily on The Textile Museum's collection of masterpieces of Anatolian carpet weaving amassed by the Museum's founder, George Hewitt Myers, this book also includes carpets from a number of leading private collectors, The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, and the Jewish Museum in New York. In this book, published to coincide with and exhibition of the same title at The Textile Museum, Washington DC, Walter B. Denny's accessible text combines the latest research with new thinking on carpet designs, history and meanings.