JOURNAL

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The Journal of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society is published three times a year. Contributions are welcomed from members and non-members.

Please send articles, ideas for articles and proposals for book or exhibition reviews to Dr Fiona Kerlogue at . Copy deadlines are 1st February, 1st June and 1st October each year.

For information on length, format and style, please see Guidelines for Contributors or contact the editor.

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Past issues 

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Past issues of the journal dating back to the 1980s are available in PDF form in the Members' Area of the website.

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Recent issue: front covers and contents

​Spring 2021 

Articles

• Weaving with gold: a look at some Japanese Buddhist textiles Helen Loveday

• Manastir rugs and kilims Gavin Strachan

• Industrialisation and the Import of Cotton Emma Slocombe

• Katagami: Just a Paper Stencil Part Two Mamiko Markham

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Book Reviews

• How to Weave a Navajo Rug by Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas

• Early Islamic Textiles by Friedrich Spuhler

• The Persian Carpet: The Forgotten Years 1722-1872 by Hadi Maktabi

Autumn 2020

Articles

• A Carpet Ride to Khiva Chris Aslan

• Bhavani Jamakkalam: The carpets of Tamil Nadu Bessie Cecil

• How Nepalese textiles inspired Susi Dunsmore Angus Williams & Caroline Ware

• Weaving Reproduction Carpets for Standen House, West Sussex  Pat Clark

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Exhibition Review

• Mediterranean Threads 18th and 19th century Greek Embroideries  Ashmolean Museum

   Book Reviews

• A Royal Treasure  by Dale Gluckmann et al.  

• Traditional Indian Handcrafted Textiles by Anjali Karolia                           

• Textiles, The Whole Story by Beverly Gordon

Summer 2020

Farewell  from Louise Teague

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Articles

• Textile book covers in the Shan manuscript tradition  Jana Igunma

•  Jim Thompson: The ‘King of Silk’  Denise Heywood

• Katagami: Just a Paper Stencil Part One  Mamiko Markham

• Online Show and Tell 2020

Book Reviews   

• Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz  ed. Sarah Fee

• Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day by Valery Garrett

• The Golden Thread, How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair

• Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso  ed. Vivian Li and Christine D Starkman

Spring 2020

Articles

• The Oriental Carpet in Portugal Dimity Spiller

• Edith Durham: textile collector and champion of the Balkans Gavin Strachan

• In Memoriam: Dr Jon Thompson

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Exhibition Reviews        

• Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk (V&A)

• Timor: Totems and Tokens (Museu do Oriente, Lisbon)

Book Reviews                

• The Persian Carpet Tradition by PRJ Ford

• The Flowering Desert by Nasreen and Hasan Askari

• Thread and Fire by Linda S McIntosh