Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Salor

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A tribe of Turkmen weavers renowned for their fine rugs and highly evolved designs. The knots are asymmetric open left.

Wilton

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A British production center of machine made rugs. In 1825, the Wilton company took over the Axminster looms, and for the next one hundred years (until 1924) produced handmade rugs as well.

A term used to describe village rugs in western Iran which have motifs of the Khamseh, Qashqai and Lori tribes. Designs of three latch hook diamond medallions are typical and these are surrounded by ...

Chahal Shotur

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A center of Bakhtiari rugs from western Iran with a compartmented garden design.

chi-chi

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A certain design of Caucasian Kuba rugs consisting of a border decorated with diagonal bars alternating with large geometric rosettes. Most Chichi rugs have an average area of 25 square inches and ...