Rugs America

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David Black
The Atlas of Rugs and Carpets: A Comprehensive Guide for the Buyer and Collector
Traces the history of carpets, discusses dyes, weaving techniques, and symbolic patterns, explains how to buy and care for carpets, and looks at examples from Turkey, Russia, Persia, China, India, and North America The Macmillan Atlas provides the interested layperson with an overview of carpet hist...
$76.37
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George Bradley
Carpet Diem: Tales from the World of Oriental Rugs – A Charming and Humorous Memoir About Collecting and Beauty
A colorful tour through the enthralling world of oriental carpets and its unusual characters that is also an honest and often humorous meditation about beautiful objects and our impulse to collect them. One day, the prizewinning poet George Bradley happened to take note of a carpet that had lain ben...
$22.10
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Alix G. Perrachon
The Decorative Carpet: Fine Handmade Rugs in Contemporary Interiors
Handmade rugs are perpetual objects of desire, sought after for their expressive designs and intricate combinations of pattern and color. Whether hand-knotted or handwoven, their tactile quality completes any well-furnished interior. A rug often occupies fully a third of a room and, if antique, is a...
$11.81
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Tiernan Alexander
Tuft the World: An Illustrated Manual to Tufting Gorgeous Rugs, Decor, and More
A visual how-to guide on the craft of tufting rugs, home decor, and more from the duo behind Tuft the World, the tufting company that has helped launch and educate a new generation of tufters. Tuft the World is an easy-to-follow and beautifully illustrated guide to tufting, whether you’re crea...
$14.99
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Harold Evans
They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century. Harold Evans is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. A graduate of Durham University,...
$22.00
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Jessie Armstead Marshall
Bed Rugs 18th and Early 19th Century Embroidered Bed Covers
This book is the first book to be written about bed rugs, embroidered bed covers stitched with hand spun, natural dyed yarns on handwoven wool or linen backings. Bed rugs are believed to be the forerunners of hooked rugs. The 124-page book shows who made them, how they were made, where they were mad...
$109.99
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Gary Cross
An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer righ...
$22.67
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American Art Association
Syrian & Egyptian Glass, Oriental Rugs
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work...
$25.95
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Candace Wheeler
How to Make Rugs
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references...
$31.95
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Cynthia Fowler
The Modern Embroidery Movement
WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018 In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the forefront of the modern embroidery movement in the United States. In the first scholarly examination of their work and influence, Cynthia Fowler explor...
$37.95
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K. C. Constantine
Grievance
Detective Ruggiero Carlucci investigates the killing of philanthropist and corporate giant James Deford Lyons, gunned down by a sniper in his own mansion, and finds himself dealing with hundreds of downsized suspects, his unstable mother, a back-stabbingpartner, and his relationship with the gorgeou...
$9.00
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Taraneh Matloob
Dear New Friend
* NEA Read Across America 2025-2026 selection * NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Recommended * A Center for Multicultural Literature Best Book of the Year A young Persian boy extends a welcoming invitation to a friend to visit his home in the hopes of finding friendship and acceptance A young boy invi...
$7.82
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ROBERT C. BRIDGES
Blanche Lazzell: The Life and Work of an American Modernist
Blanche Lazzell went from Maidsville, West Virginia, to the leading edge of twentieth-century American art. A member of the prominent art communities of Paris and Provincetown, MA during the '20s and '30s, Lazzell was always on the fringe of important developments in the modern art world. Her studie...
$74.95
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Don DeLillo
White Noise: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library)
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra , soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise is the story of Jack, his wife, Babette, and their four ultramodern offspring. They live in a college town where Jack is Profes...
$24.00
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Judy Taylor
Rug Hooker's Guide to the YARNIVERSE!
Winner of the eLit Book Awards 2014. Go beyond the basics in rug hooking with yarn with this easy, colorful guide. Learn advanced techniques for hooking rugs with yarn, including techniques for creating realistic shading, incorporating fine detail and primitive rug hooking, with dozens of templates ...
$29.95
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Lauraine Snelling
A Breath of Hope (Under Northern Skies)
Nilda Carlson has been trying to save enough money to go to America for months, so when a letter from Einar and Gerd Strand arrives, offering to pay her ticket, she jumps at the chance. Her younger brother Ivar accompanies her, and they can't wait to join their brother Rune and his family in the nor...
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Lauraine Snelling
A Breath of Hope (Under Northern Skies)
Nilda Carlson has been trying to save enough money to go to America for months, so when a letter from Einar and Gerd Strand arrives, offering to pay her ticket, she jumps at the chance. Her younger brother Ivar accompanies her, and they can't wait to join their brother Rune and his family in the nor...
$14.85
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Deborah Harding
Home Sweet Home: The House in American Folk Art
Explores the symbol of the house in quilts, rugs, needlework, furnishings, paintings, and drawings. Deborah Harding is an established author and authority in the areas of American folk art, vintage textiles, and collectibles. Her books include Red & White: American Redwork Patterns and Quilts (Ri...
$19.95
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Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House , The Lottery , We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and much more "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is alwa...
$22.38
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Joanne Tallarovic
Rep Weave and Beyond (Weavers Studio)
Joanne Tallarovic reveals how she modifies traditional Swedish ripsmatta (or Scandinavian rep weave) to create her highly prized handwork. Often associated with rag rugs, rep is a simple weave structure in which the warp almost entirely covers the weft. While Scandinavian rep weave is usually charac...
$79.68
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