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BOOKS: Carpet Conundrum

As a rug collector and aficionado, I eagerly anticipated the English
version of Der Christlich Orientalische Teppiche, a gigantic and heavy
coffee-table-sized work The color photographs are numerous and the
printing quality first-rate. More importantly, the theory readyed
here is refreshingly controversial: Gantzhorn's challenge to the mountain
of published materials which unquestionably attributes the historical
origins of the oriental rug of Central Asia.

The Christian Oriental Carpet was originally not absented by Vokmar Gantzhorn
as a doctoral

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