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  2. Ushak carpet - Wikipedia

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    Uşak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets (Turkish: Uşak Halısı) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Uşak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th ...

  3. Transylvanian rugs - Wikipedia

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    Amongst the rugs carpets preserved in Transylvania are classical Turkish carpets like Holbein, Lotto, and so-called "white ground" Selendi or Ushak carpets. [1] [3] The term "Transylvanian rug" more specifically refers to four distinct types of Anatolian carpets which have survived in Transylvania.

  4. Anatolian rug - Wikipedia

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    Fragment of a Medallion Ushak carpet, ca. 1600. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin. Medallion Ushak carpets usually have a red or blue field decorated with a floral trellis or leaf tendrils, ovoid primary medallions alternating with smaller eight-lobed stars, or lobed medallions, intertwined with floral tracery. Their border frequently contains ...

  5. Uşak carpets - Wikipedia

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    Ushak carpets are also called Holbein carpets in reference to the 16th century painter Hans Holbein the Younger who depicted them in minute detail in his paintings, reflecting their popularity in European markets. The level of international popularity attained by Uşak's carpets became such that the word "Ushak" is considered an English word of ...

  6. Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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    As compared to the medallion Ushak carpets, the concept of the infinite repeat in star Ushak carpets is more accentuated and in keeping with the early Turkish design tradition. [73] Because of their strong allusion to the infinite repeat, the star Ushak design can be used on carpets of various size and in many varying dimensions.

  7. Lotto carpet - Wikipedia

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    Lotto carpet, Uşak region, 16th century. Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum A Lotto carpet is a hand-knotted, patterned Turkish carpet that was produced primarily during the 16th and 17th centuries along the Aegean coast of Anatolia, Turkey , although it was also copied in various parts of Europe.

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  9. Early Anatolian animal carpets - Wikipedia

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    Phoenix and Dragon carpet, 164 x 91 cm, Anatolia, circa 1500, Pergamon Museum, Berlin Animal carpet, around 1500, found in Marby Church, Jämtland, Sweden.Wool, 160 cm x 112 cm, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm Animal carpet, Turkey, dated to the 11th–13th century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Anatolian Animal carpet, 1500 or earlier, wool, symmetric knots.