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 editor.orts@gmail.com. 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. A few back issues of recent journals are available for sale. Please contact the editor.

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Recent issue: front covers and contents

Summer 2021

Articles

  • The garden in Iranian textiles Friederike Voigt

  • Journey of a Collection Gaspard de Marval

  • Good - Better - Best. Tekke Turkoman Engsis Angela Seger

  • Jajam: The Lost Floorcloths of Rajasthan Suki Skidmore

  • Balinese Temple Hangings Fiona Kerlogue

  • Susi Dunsmore in China Claude Delmas

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Exhibition Review

  • Epic Iran Victoria and Albert Museum

Book Review

  • Traditional Costumes of Saudi Arabia by Hamida Alireza and Richard Wilding 

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​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

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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

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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

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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

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