Publications

	Criteria For Selecting Tribal Textiles
	What qualities make a tribal rug or textile a "collector's piece"? When is restoration appropriate? What should beginning collectors avoid? Marla discusses her criteria.

	Egyptian Village Tapestries: An Experiment in Creativity
	How one man's inspired work with young village children resulted in a delightful new folk art form.

	Tracking the Archetype: Technique-Generated Designs and Their Mutant Offspring
	How some of the most familiar knotted-pile rug designs originated in the nomadic flat-weave techniques, then how they evolved.

	A Weaver's View of the Çatal Hüyük Controversy
	An in-depth examination of the drawings presented by James Mellaart in an effort to establish Anatolian kilim designs as stone-age in origin. Was this a grand hoax?

	The Goddess from Anatolia: An Updated View of the Çatal Hüyük Controversy
	A summary of the events and debates surrounding controversial "reconstructed" wall paintings said to be from an important Neolithic archaeological site in central Anatolia.

	The Terminology Tangle: Another View
	An article written at the height of the rug-world debate over "technical" vs. "structural" rug language. The absurd results of a rigid approach.