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2. Caucasian carpets and rugs - Wikipedia

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   Soumak flat-weave rug from Quba Rayon or Daghestan, mid-19th century. Caucasian carpets and rugs are primarily made in villages, rather than in cities. [1] They are made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces, the rugs of the Caucasus normally display bold geometric designs in primary colors.

3. Oriental rug - Wikipedia

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   Occasional reports appear about carpets and rugs being bought in Venice. In a series of letters [136] from Venice dated 18 August - 13 October 1506, [137] the Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer mentions "two nice and large" carpets which he bought for a friend amongst other luxury goods. Objects of courtly representation and prestige initially ...

4. Persian carpet - Wikipedia

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   A Persian carpet (Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), [1] or Iranian carpet is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran ...

5. 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 ...

6. Afghan rug - Wikipedia

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   An Afghan rug (or Afghan carpet [1]) is a type of handwoven floor-covering textile traditionally made in the northern and western areas of Afghanistan, [2] [3] mainly by Afghan Turkmens and Uzbeks. [1] [4] The industry is being expanded to all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. [5] Afghan rugs have won a number of international awards.

7. Isfahan rug - Wikipedia

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   Isfahan rugs are knotted on either silk or cotton foundations, with up to 1.000.000 Persian knots/sqm(there have been pieces created by Seirafian master workshop with higher knot count), using exceptionally good quality (referred to as kork wool in Iran) wool for the pile, which is normally clipped quite low.