User:Jcwamri

Jcwamri is Jack Cassin the founder of WAMRI, the Weaving Art Museum and Research Institute, http://weavingartmuseum.org, a non-profit art organization dedicated to raising awareness for historic masterpiece Near East weavings. Jack is an authority on oriental rug studies, particularly early Anatolian(Turkish) Kelim and carpets, as well as the carpets of the Turkmen from western Central Asia. He has also been a long time collector of historic examples from these areas and the flatweaves, kelim and soumak khorjin(saddle bags), from the trans-Caucasus. He has authored five books - Tent Band Tent Bag; Image Idol Symbol:Ancient Anatolian Kelim; Kelim Soumak Carpet and Cloth: Classic Weaving of the Caucasus; Cult Kelim; as well as all of the significant chapters in Shawls of the East. Jack frequently posts research papers, commentaries, critiques and cutting edge articles on various topics and issues involving, and concerned with, historic oriental rug studies and collecting on the website RugKazbah http://rugkazbah.com.