Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

assadabad

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Hamadan Area herati designed rugs with nicely small central medallion.

asymmetrical knot (Persian knot)

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

One of the two major knot types used in oriental rugs - the symmetrical knot being the other. Both knots usually wrap around two strands of warp. The Persian knot (also termed Senneh) can be either ...

Aubusson

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A center of French Aubusson rugs production which began in the mid 17th century. At first, Aubusson rugs woven were based on Turkish models but from the mid 19th century, designs began competing with ...

Azerbaijan

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Straddling Iran and the Caucasus, this Turkish-speaking province could be the most important rug weaving area in history.

azo dyes

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Synthetic dyes introduced about 1880 including Ponceau 2R, Amaranth and Roccelline. Many of these dyes have a tendency to run.

Babur

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The babur nama gives a view of the life of a nomadic Central Asian horseman driven from his ancestral lands by the emergent uzbeks to found the Moghul dynasty in N India.

Badam

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

literal translation from all of the Turkic based languages including Uzbek, Turkmen, Farsi 'almond', refers to a pattern seen more often in Ersari weavings used as a border motif.