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Journal of Design History 1997 10(4):363-374; doi:10.1093/jdh/10.4.363
© 1997 by Design History Society
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Twentieth-century Myth-making: Persian Tribal Rugs

PATRICIA L. BAKER

London


  Abstract

The subject of a number of studies including a TV programme, Qashqa'i carpets are perhaps the best-known tribal rugs of Iran; much is made of their ‘authenticity’. This article examines the argument that the aesthetic value of tribal carpets, especially those of Turkoman Central Asia, is gauged on regional and ethnic identification, rather than on design, colour and structural considerations, and reveals dual standards in operation, concerning the role of the maker in society.


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