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Persian Rugs | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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Even so, the finest rugs. Of honest wool. The time was more than ripe for a positive reiteration of the royal disapproval of anilines, for a cursory journey through the bazaars of any Persian town shows the chemical dyes largely in preponderance, and it is difficult, and in many places impossible, to find embroideries or fabrics of any sort which contain only the old fashioned colors. By and large", to be had in the. In the land whose name he wears. It is worthy of remark that throughout Persia the medal...

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Mosul Rugs | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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Some Varieties of Kurdish. 151; The two characteristics which, taken in conjunction, provide the first step toward identification of these fabrics are: First, the soft, flocky nature of the pile; second, a marked tendency to the use of yellow and warm, yellowish or brownish reds in the coloring. A great deal of camel's-hair and goat's-hair filik. Gender or Genje Rugs. Some Varieties of Kurdish Rugs. Some Varieties of Kurdish.

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Turkish Rugs | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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The peninsula, so far as its rugs are concerned, is merely a workshop, and Smyrna is its counting room. The singular conditions prevalent here present a difficult dilemma to the writer. Each weaving town has in effect two classes of fabrics. To prosecute faithfully the purpose of this book description should be given, to the end of identification, of the typical antique rugs. For which some of the districts have been renowned. They have a distinctive character. Smyrna is its counting room:.

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Smyrna Rugs: Ghiordes, Kulah, Demirdji, Ushak, Bergama, Ladik, Milas

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I may repeat here that the Smyrna rugs of today are all made for market, and are as purely commercial creations as Axminster or Wilton. The paltry rates at which weavers can be employed more than overbalance the American tariff upon imported fabrics, and there remains the indisputable fact that Americans cannot, even with better facilities and the best of Oriental designs to work from, satisfactorily imitate the Eastern products. 151; for weft. The better grades are known by the greater number of knots c...

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Oriental Rugs Classification | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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IN the chapters which follow an attempt is made so to set forth in description the principal types of Oriental rugs. That a clear and comprehensive idea may be formed, in the mind of the reader, of the general quality, appearance, color, design, texture and usefulness of each. 3 "Kabistan" or Kuba. 4 "Chi-chi" or Tchetchen. 5 Cherkess or Circassian. 2 Soumak or "Sumak". 2 Turkman or Genghis. 5 Bergamo and Ladik. 7 Meles or Carian. 4 "Sarakhs" or Bijar. 3 "Saraband" or Sarawan. 1 "Bokhara" or Tekke.

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Materials in Oriental Rugs | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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Countries, reaching far north of the constantly advancing Russian border, and from the Mediterranean to the Great Wall of China, are natural homes of the animals, which yield textile filaments. There is no quarter of the world - which has not heard the fame of the goats of Angora and Kashmir. No country, save perchance the uplands of Spain, has produced wool equal to that shorn from the sheep herding about the salt lake of Niris in Farsistan. In different parts of Persia this is called. May is the sheari...

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Azerbaijan Rugs | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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The making of rugs in Azerbaijan is as old as the province, but it was not until the vast trade sprang up in Tabriz that the Azerbaijan fabrics were known as such. All the industry here has practically been developed since 1890. Prior to that Hamadan was the marketplace for the rugs. Of all that part of Persia, and thence it arose that the rugs of Azerbaijan. Tabriz or Tebriz Rugs. Frankly admit their inability to make the old-time colors. Ivory and yellow areas:. Woven at Herek-keui, in Turkey:.

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Konieh Rugs: Konieh, Kir-Shehr, Kaba-Karaman, Yuruk, Anatolian

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Konieh province and the districts, which surround it, exemplify perfectly the diversity in topography, climate and population, which mark the whole Anatolian peninsula. The plateaus of this section afford all the conditions required for wool growing; the valleys, which traverse it, are fertile in the production of dye materials. 151; Konieh — ancient Iconium — the name has its origin in the Greek word. Most of the antique Koniehs which have found their way over-seas are sedjadeh. And the main stripes car...

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Oriental Rug History | Oriental-rugs-history.com

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And dragon, having their own religious significance, and even carried to an advanced degree of perfection the representation of human figures and the sprites of their mythology. How remote the time in which these strange textile devices were born is a matter for archaeology to determine. In a dozen different families of Oriental rugs. Assyria and Chaldea stand next to Egypt as ancient homes of rug making. As for the "design, special to Assyria, of the sacred tree between two guardian beasts," referred to...