The popularity of colorful, flat-woven kilim rugs has increased steadily in recent years. Highly prized as collectible textiles, kilims easily double as beautiful assets in home decor, even to the often unfortunate extent of their being cut up and made into pillow slips or upholstery fabric for sofas and chairs. Hull, who has an earlier and very informative book to his credit, teams up with Luczyc-Wyhowska in this current guide to describe in considerably more depth the design motifs, symbols, and patterns of tribal and contemporary commercially produced kilims. Illustrations, including line drawings and extensive color photographs, will help to educate aficionados and to provide detailed information to aid in identifying kilims from areas of North Africa, Anatolia, Persia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. This is most likely the definitive guide to kilims thus far, and it surely qualifies as an important acquisition where other resources are unavailable. Alice Joyce
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