Jewish Carpets: A History and Guide

This could never be an easy book to review, since it is the first on the subject, and therefore there is nothing with which to compare it. Anton Felton is clearly the right person to have written it, since he claims to have been “worrying, studying and collecting” Jewish carpets for over 30 years and has travelled widely in Europe and the Middle East in order to extend his collection and widen his knowledge of “these rare textiles”. Rare they may be, but in these 200 pages Felton has succeeded in describing and illustrating 100 different examples. Prior to that,...