Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania (limited stock) Today Transylvania continues to be the repository of the richest and best preserved corpus of Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world. Among them are almost four hundred examples attributable to the golden period of Ottoman weaving from the mid 15th to the second half 18th century. They include many of the classic types such as ‘Holbeins’, Ushaks, ‘Lottos’ and Selendis as well as ‘Transylvanian’ rugs. Attempts to explain the presence of so many Ottoman rugs in the Lutheran Churches of Transylvania have so far resulted in theories that range from the incomplete to the eccentric. It has therefore been the aim of this book to present a thorough and detailed review of the historical and material evidence, and to provide soundly-based answers to the question of both the origin of the carpets and the reasons for their survival. Colour images of 300 antique rugs, drawn from all the Transylvanian collections, are published together with technical analysis. The famous collection of the Black Church in Brasov is published in its entirety. english version GERMAN version (limited stock); italian version (limited stock); hungarian version (stock below 5 copies); romanian version (out of print).