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2. Khorjin - Wikipedia

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   A khorjin is a type of decorative carpet bag made across Greater Iran and Central Asia. [ 1 ] Hand knotted carpets and hand woven kilims (flatwoven textiles) were made by various nomadic tribes of the Middle East and Central Asia, including the Baloch , the Turkmen , the Afshars , the Bakhtyari , the Qashqai , and the Kurds , among others.

3. Soumak - Wikipedia

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   Bags were sometimes woven with a face of soumak, with a tapestry-woven kilim-like top creating slits between blocks of colour: a rope was threaded in and out of the series of slits to fasten and close the bag. [10] Sizes vary, from carpet format through bags for bedding or for use on pack animals, to tiny tribal domestic bags.

4. Persian carpet - Wikipedia

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   The Qashqai are also known for their flat-weaves, and for their production of smaller, pile-woven saddle bags, flat-woven larger bags (mafrash), and their Gabbeh rugs. The Shishbuluki ( lit. : "six districts") rugs are distinguished by small, central, lozenge-shaped medallions surrounded by small figures aligned in concentric lozenges radiating ...

5. Kilim - Wikipedia

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   Hotamis Kilim (detail), central Anatolia, early 19th century. A kilim ( Persian: گلیم gilīm Azerbaijani: kilim کیلیم; Turkish: kilim; Turkmen: kilim) is a flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug traditionally produced in countries of the former Persian Empire, including Iran, but also in the Balkans and the Turkic countries.

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7. Oriental rug - Wikipedia

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   Palace inventories from the archives of Nuzi, from the 15th/14th century BC, record 20 large and 20 small mardatu to cover the chairs of Idrimi. [18] There are documentary records of carpets being used by the ancient Greeks. Homer writes in Ilias XVII,350 that the body of Patroklos is covered with a “splendid carpet”.