Search Results: Textiles from Focloir

Scotland 010 Dunbar, John Telfer, 1912-
History of Highland dress, a definitive study of the history of Scottish costume and tartan, both civil and military, including weapons. With an appendix on early Scottish dyes by Annette Kok. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1962, xii, 248p, 59 plates (part col.). Handsome copy.

Gaelic075 Craig, K.C. (ed). Orain Luaidh. Mairi Nighean Alasdair. Glasgow: Craig, 1949, 124p. Waulking songs of Mary MacDonald. Entirely in Scottish Gaelic. No music. $40.00
Kirkland Cameron Craig was professor of Celtic Studies at Edinburgh University. During the 1930's he traveled the Western Highlands of Scotland gathering tales from old story tellers and then having them printed and published at his own expense. Kirkland Cameron Craig was killed in 1963 in the earthquake in Skoppe. He had been tracing the roots of the Celtic language from the Western Isles of Scotland down through Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and then over onto the continent.

Persia fwpt Floor, Willem. The Persian textile industry in historical perspective, 1500-1925 VIe-XIXe s) Paris: L'Harmattan. 1999, 399 pages, bib, tables. Like new copy in green library buckram with black lettering. Original covers of the paperback bound into this hardcover volume. From the personal library of a bibliophile/librarian

Wales 004 Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin. The Shrewsbury drapers and the Welsh wool trade in the XVI and XVII centuries. London: G. Cumberlege: Oxford University Press, 1953, 248 p, bib, index. Cover little dulled over the years but a good, clean tight copy, no marks. $35.00

Ancient world 747Forbes, R.J. Studies in Ancient Technology. Volume IV. Second revised edition. Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1987 (1964), 263 pages, 36 figures and 7 tables, bib, notes, illus. Fine in like dust jacket. The first edition was originally published in 1956 and the second revised edition was published in 1964. This is the photomechanical print of the 1964 edition published in 1987. This, Volume IV, deals with the various aspects of ancient textiles. $20.00

Central Asia Turkoman. Thatcher, Amos Bateman. Turkoman rugs; An illustrative monograph on the rugs woven by the Turkoman tribes of Central Asia. A Publication of the Hajji Baba Club. London: Holland Press, 1977, 155 pages, 55 black and white plates, glossary, bib. Fine copy of the hardcover. (Originally published in 1940 in New York by E. Weyhe). $23.50 Box 2424