THE STORY OF BRITISH CARPETS
Author: BERTRAM JACOBS
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 220
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A History of British Carpets
Author: Creassey Edward Cecil Tattersall
Publisher:
Published: 1934
Total Pages: 332
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Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781853261558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.
Hotel Carpets
Author: Bill Young
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781910566749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBill Young is a US pilot. Bill Young has stayed in a lot of hotels. Bill Young likes carpets. Now you can share his joy.0From Austin to Amsterdam, Lille to Las Vegas, this book shares the mesmerising, bizarre (and sometimes questionable) carpets found in hotel lobbies all over the world. Bill Young, a US pilot, finds himself in a lot of cities often with camera, time and carpet to hand. His photos are enjoyed by his 400,000 followers on Instagram and now an edit of the most striking designs appear in this playful paperback alongside Bill's irreverent commentary.
A Carpet Ride to Khiva
Author: Chris Aslan
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1848312717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed. Immersing himself in the language and rich cultural traditions Alexander discovers a world torn between Marx and Mohammed - a place where veils and vodka, pork and polygamy freely mingle - against a backdrop of forgotten carpet designs, crumbling but magnificent Islamic architecture and scenes drawn straight from "The Arabian Nights". Accompanied by a large green parrot, a ginger cat and his adoptive Uzbek family, Alexander recounts his efforts to rediscover the lost art of traditional weaving and dyeing, and the process establishing a self-sufficient carpet workshop, employing local women and disabled people to train as apprentices. A Carpet Ride to Khiva sees Alexander being stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp, crawling through silkworm droppings in an attempt to record their life-cycle, holed up in the British Museum discovering carpet designs dormant for half a millennia, tackling a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural dyes from sacks of opium in Northern Afghanistan, bluffing his way through an impromptu version of "My Heart Will Go On" for national Uzbek TV and seeking sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed the Kabul carpet bazaar. It is an unforgettable true travel story of a journey to the heart of the unknown and the unexpected friendship one man found there.
Spoon's Carpets
Author: Kit Caless
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1910931497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliantly quirky and affectionate look at a British institution: Wetherspoon Pubs and their incredible carpets. If you’ve ever been in a Wetherspoon's (and who hasn't), you’ve probably looked down and noticed the brilliantly-hued carpet beneath your feet. But that carpet isn’t just for disguising spilt drinks… Each Wetherspoon has a carpet that is unique and bespoke, with a design inspired by the history of the building, its locale or the name of the pub. Thanks to the hit blog 'Wetherspoon's Carpets' – which posed the important question 'are any two Wetherspoon carpets the same?’ – these tapestried hymns to British boozers have become a cultural sensation. Now, Kit Caless has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, from Berkshire to Renfrewshire, Bradford to Bridgend, to photograph over 70 splendid carpets from Wetherspoons and meet some of the pubs' regulars. Each entry appears in all its glorious colour, along with Caless's witty and informative text on the inspiration for each carpet's design, the history of the pub and key facts about the branch and its regulars. Will your Spoons be there?
Shag Carpet Action
Author: Matthew Firth
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781897535844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Shag Carpet Action' is Matthew Firth's boldest and brashest collection of stories yet. Centred on the novella "Dog Fucker Blues" this collection examines what it's like to be down but not quite out in the 21st century. The book examines people clinging to the edge of physical, mental, sexual, psychological, and financial survival, bordering on the brink of ruin. This new collection continues Firth's deep mining into the bowels of Canadian life. From there he unearths tales of some of Canada's forgotten people who survive with their wits and guts during these harsh times.Behind the covers of 'Shag Carpet Action' are stories about rival garbage collectors warring over a possible strike; suburban lust and yearning involving the creative use of a son's Spider-Man toy; the travails of a man who has a vasectomy but then finds that there are more painful events to deal with on his agenda; shameless and bombastic people who just don't care who overhears their conversation-and on it goes. Absurd, raunchy, funny stories whose sharp, salty characters are boldly credible and wonderfully rendered by one of Canada's most adventurous and courageous writers."Matthew Firth is one of my favourite writers. I wait for new Firth books with all of the same sense of need and anticipation that I once felt while waiting for my heroin dealer to show." - Tony O'Neill, author of 'Sick City'"Matt Firth is the literary incarnation of the boy your mama warned you about. These short stories, as tightly clenched as an angry fist, are not for the faint-hearted. Firth will probably never win any big prizes, because he cock-punches the kind of pastoral/historical claptrap that passes for literature among wine-drinking book clubbers." -Jenn Farrell, author of 'Sugar Bush and Other Stories' and 'The Devil You Know'"Firth's strength lies not simply in provocatively deploying overt sexuality, but rather the way he leverages bald carnality to make broader, potent statements about thehuman condition." - Quill & Quire
Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet
Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1528787676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis glorious collection of vintage children’s stories by Edith Nesbit features all three books from the Psammead trilogy: Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet. The fantastical tales revolve around five children; Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother known as The Lamb (named after his first word was ‘Baa’). In the first story, the children discover a Psammead or Sand-Fairy while on holiday in the countryside. The fairy can grant the children one wish a day, resulting in many magical adventures, often with hilarious results. The adventure continues in the two following stories, and with the aid of magical elements like a flying carpet and a time-travelling amulet, there’s no shortage of mischievous antics for the three siblings. Immerse yourself in a world of magic with these three classic children’s stories by E. Nesbit brought back to life in this beautiful volume. Treasured for decades past and a perfect addition to any bookshelf, this edition by Read & Co. Books will bring joy to young and old readers alike.
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
Author: E. NESBIT
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0359553443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sequel to Five Children and It follows the wondrous adventures of Robert, Jane, Cyril, Anthea, and The Lamb as they discover a clever phoenix and a magic carpet. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The children are on a fantastic ride with the hopelessly vain but good-hearted phoenix and his flying carpet. They travel to a French castle, to a tropical island, foil a burglar, arrange a marriage, change people's disposition, and have to figure out how to get 199 Persian cats, 398 muskrats, a cow, and a policeman out of their house. Their charming adventures not only entertain but teach them, and the reader, a few gentle lessons." The Phoenix and the Carpet"" is a wonderful book for the young and the young at heart. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, "The Story of the Amulet"
Architecture on the Carpet
Author: Brenda Vale
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500342855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA view of architecture through the prism of construction toys.
