Original drawings of Turkoman rug designs / Amos Batemann Thacher
This is a set of hand-drawn colour studies of Turkmen rug designs, made by Amos Batemann Thacher and probably published privately in New York around 1940 for a reader interested in Oriental rugs. The pictures show central medallions built from stepped, hooked and diamond motifs, drawn in flat red, blue and cream on a pale ground. A designer could take from them a geometric repeat system in which a central lozenge is surrounded by projecting arms and borders.
