Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Talish

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A southeast Caucasian region known for 19th century rugs with long formats and empty fields. Color of fields is usually red, blue or green. Symmetrical knots were used with a foundation of wool, or ...

tamgas

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Nomadic livestock brand which may also be a tribal emblem woven into rugs.

tapestry weave

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Any one of a variety of weaves in which there are no supplementary wefts and the pattern or design is created by ground wefts that are not continuous from selvage to selvage.

Tekke

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The dominant Turkmen tribe in the second half of the nineteenth century, makers of a great variety of refined weavings. Their carpets, eagerly collected by Europeans, were baptized 'Royal Bukhara' by ...

Tianjin

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A port and industrial city in northwest China. Rug production there began around 1910 with factories built for exporting rugs to the United States and Europe. Traditional Chinese rugs with open ...

tibetan rugs

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

There's a long tradition of rug production in Tibet with some pieces woven as early as the 1700's. Rugs from this area have been mostly influenced by those of China and Eastern Turkestan. Traditional ...

tibetian knot

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A distinctive rug-weaving technique now used in other regions as well as in Tibet. A temporary rod, which establishes the length of pile, is put in front of the warp. A continuous yarn is looped ...