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Transylvania continues to be the repository of the richest and best preserved corpus of Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world. Almost 400 examples attributable to the golden period of Ottoman weaving from the mid 15th to the end of the 18th century survived here including most of the classical groups such as Ghirlandaio, Holbein, Ushak, Lotto, Selendi, Transylvanian, Kula and Ghiordes. Attempts to explain the presence of so many Ottoman rugs in the Lutheran Churches of the Saxon community in Transylvania have so far resulted in theories that range from the incomplete to the eccentric. The book begins with an overview of the relevant carpet literature, which for generations of scholars and rug enthusiasts was dominated by Emil Schmutzler's monumental study Altorientalische Teppiche in Siebenbürgen, published in 1933. This is followed by a succinct account of Transylvania's turbulent history, leading to an examination of the trade in Ottoman rugs and the ways in which such rugs were used and valued. Colour images of more than 250 rugs, drawn from all the Transylvanian collections, are published together with technical analyses. The famous collection of the Black Church in Brasov is published in its entirety for the first time. Museum rug collections from Transylvania, as well as from Bucharest, are discussed with many additional illustrations. The appendices include biographical essays on Emil Schmutzler and Teodor Tuduc, translations of the inscriptions on rugs, listings of rug locations and of all published rugs by collection, technical analyses, a discussion of Oriental rugs in Moldavia and Valacchia and an extensive bibliography.