Louise W. Mackie. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th–21st Century

This lavishly illustrated and physically imposing volume – a winner of the 24th I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2017) – has been published as the result of a long-term research endeavour by Louise W. Mackie, an internationally renowned expert of Islamic textiles and a former curator of textiles and Islamic art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. With more than 500 illustrations, mostly in color, Symbols of Power offers an unparallel amount of information on the historical and cultural..