CARPETS AND RUGS, HISTORY OF; ORIENTAL RUGS
See also:
Textiles
A
The Ardabil Carpet in The Victoria and Albert Museum
Afghan Rugs and Carpets: Rugs from Afghanistan
Afghan rugs.
C
Carpets from the Islamic World, 1600–1800, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chinese
Textiles
The
Cyber Rug Center, Photographs
K
Kashmir
rugs.
M
Moroccan Rugs
New England Rug Society
O
Old Carpet
provides
a central location for knowledge and commerce in Persian rugs and carpets.
Founded in 1877, their business originated in Tabriz (Northwest of IRAN)
when the first package of Persian rugs and carpets were loaded on the backs
of the horses enroute to Istanbul.
Oriental Rug Review
Oriental
Rugs.com
P
Persian rugs
R
The
Rug Finder
A searchable catalogue and trading site of hand-made rugs,
carpets and tapestries.
T
Textile as Art.com
Antique costumes, antique textiles, ancient textiles.
The Textile Museum, Washington
D.C.
Turkish rugs
V
Wikipedia entry on carpets
and rugs.
CARVING,
SCULPTURE
See::Sculpture
. Woodwork
Extensive
sculpture links, international sculpture resources.
Sculptors by country,
sculptor organisations, tools, techniques, sculptor galleries, sculptor
advertising.
CERAMICS
See:
Ceramics
Artists.
An international directory of artists in ceramics,
from The Open Directory
Project.
Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean, Britain's oldest public museum, has one of the finest collections
of ceramics in the world. Now the Museum has launched an ambitious and
pioneering project for the twenty-first century - PotWeb - to create an
online catalogue of their entire ceramic collection.
British
Museum Asian ceramics collection.
Ceramics
Art and Perception
aims to set the standard as a dedicated magazine
on ceramic art.
Ceramics
Web. The SDSU Ceramics Web
is an experimental web site for ceramics. It
includes a such things as databases of glaze recipes and material analyses,
links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and a
variety of educational materials related to ceramics.
Delftware
Wikipedia
University of Wales Ceramic
Collection and Archive
Victoria
and Albert Museum ceramics collection.
Wikipedia entry on ceramics.
CLOCKS
AND WATCHES, HISTORY OF: HOROLOGY
Clocks and watches
COLLAGE
Collage
Art
Dedicated to the art of collage and assemblage. Collage artists, exhibitions.
By Jonathon Talbot
Collage,
assemblage, a directory of websites.
Directory
of collage and assemblage web sites.
International
Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction
Johnson's
Petit Musée
Assemblages and constructions, high-speed photographs,
anamorphic art.
Laudator
Photomontage numerique/photo collage. French and English collage.
Collage artists
Copeland,
Dale
Sheinman,
Nancy
CONJURING, MAGIC
Card Tricks
Conjuring
and Magic Cards
Famous
magicians,
from Conjuring Lights, a leading resource for archival pictures
of famous magicians. Magic history, museum galleries of vintage portraits,
rare books, ephemera, and classic apparatus
Magicbox.uk.
The Magic Library,
from Magicktricks.com.
Wikipedia entry on illlusionists and magic.
COSTUME
See also:
Costume
. Fashion
The
Costume Gallery Research Library
A major research library. Research by time
and topic.Ladies Journals, articles, historical images, Edwardian and Victorian
Photographs.
Costume.org
Costume internet portal.
The
Costume Page
Links to the history of costumes and fashion. Ethnic costume,
museums, military costume, theatrical costume, the Costume WebRing.
CRAFTS
. GENERAL HANDCRAFT RESOURCES
African
crafts online.
Craftspeople, artists, designers, decorative arts from Africa.
Cheltenham
Art Gallery and Museum, England.
British art and crafts movement displays,
Cotswolds crafts.
Chinese
folk arts,
peasant art (Jinshan and Huxian peasant paintings), silk embroidery,
kites, paper cuts, traditional silver and cloisonne jewelry, blue and white
batik.
Crafts
Council Online, London.
The Crafts Council is the UK’s national organisation
for the promotion of contemporary crafts. Exhibitions, events, magazine.
Includes the Crafts Council Gallery - Britain's largest crafts gallery.
Crafts.
International Crafts Links from the Arts and Crafts Society.
Indian crafts
Indian
handicrafts, decorative arts.
The Indiamart trade portal.
Crafts
hand-made by traditional village and tribal artisans of India.
ShalinCraft
India
Heritage
Painting, metal work, woodcraft, textiles, earthenware.
Venetian crafts
See:
Venice
William
Morris Gallery, England.
England's best-known designer and initiator of
the 19th Century art and craft movement.
CUISINE
See: Cuisine
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