Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card. I Wanted Something More 03:58. The first track from the album Turkish Delight. As some of you may know, this August would have marked our 7th anniversary together as a band.
This year, the Rugs played a handful of shows, recorded a couple of new songs, Ali got married and Matt got engaged!
Some of us have been working on other projects, and Matt and Ian played a reunion show with their beloved band , The Diableros — that was quite the night! But now, onto some more . Seraband rug or Saraband , is an Iranian ( Persian ) handwoven floor rug from the Ser-e Band district These 19th-century and early-20th-century rugs have a mir design, characterized by small, pear or leaf forms in diagonal rows. I went to a chamber music concert last month where they brought in an oriental rug specifically to achieve a deader acoustic in an otherwise too-live space.
Bonus: it served as a commercial for the rug importer, who was able to get his product in front of a lot . A border of repeated horseshoe-shaped cloud bands originating in sixteenth-century Persian rugs. The cloud bands alternate toward and away from the field. Cloud band border cloud collar, sky door, yün-chien.
An outline and enclosing design of Chinese origin.
It was originally used around the. All that sai you could accomplish the above points with just a normal floor carpet, so why spring for a full-on oriental rug ? Among the touchy-feely reasons:. By vaguely memorizing the pattern on the rug, I knew how much space I had to move about before I collided with a fellow bandmate. A very ancient device, Mongolian in origin, found sometimes in the Fields or Borders of sixteenth or seventeenthcentury Persian rugs.
Occasionally met with in older or modern Sirapis. An old Armenian symbol, which may at times be . Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Former members of The Airfields and The Diableros. The exquisite floral ornament of this carpet resembles that of the so-called “ hunting” and “animal” carpets , which in some instances have the same beautiful border design (see head- band , page xiii) of palmettes and large arabesques, but the field design is characteristic of the early Herat PERSIAN.
There is a hilarious reference to this in Bill Grahams book Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out. The set for Touring Into The Great Wide Open was also a departure from the simple Persian rug and tasteful lighting the band usually selected. Anyone who looks closely at the photographs of rugs in this web site will notice that, in many of them, colors change in horizontal bands throughout the rugs. A band of darker blue, for instance, may lie between larger areas of lighter blue.
That kind of color-variation is called abrash. Itis found mostlyin Caucasian rugs ,and rarely inthoseofother groups. In a large numberofthe finest carpetswoven in Persia three orfourcenturies agowas representedwhat is known as the Chinese cloudband (Plate O, Fig.
7). It appeared in Persia aboutthe middle of the XV Century,and was conspicuousin the carpets ofHerat, . Shahsavan Iranian rugs and textiles.
Turkoman rugs: an illustrative monograph on the rugs woven by the Turkoman tribes of CentralAsia. Turkmen tribal carpets and traditions. Mackie and Jon Thompson.
