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2. Berber carpet - Wikipedia

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   Handmade Berber carpet from Morocco A woman weaving a carpet using a handloom in 1961 in al-Qayrawan. Modern industrialized Berber carpets are distinguished by a loop pile construction type that gives a similar appearance to the distinct knot of traditionally woven Berber carpets. The modern carpets usually contain small flecks of dark colour ...

3. Moroccan rugs - Wikipedia

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   Many of these Berber carpets are woven by the Beni Ourain peoples from the Rif Mountains near Taza. Colours vary from neutral shades to popping hues, with designs ranging from ordered geometric shapes to a more free-form, expressive pattern. Part of the appeal to the modernists was the primitivism in the carpets.

4. Gabbeh - Wikipedia

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   Gabbeh carpets are much thicker and coarser than other Persian carpets; sometimes they can be as much as one inch or 2.5 cm in depth. In fact, they are more a variety of kilim than carpet. The word "gabbeh" comes from the Persian گبه, meaning raw, natural, uncut. This is a rough and primitive carpet. [2]

5. Carpet - Wikipedia

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   Macro shot of a Berber-style carpet. Berber-style carpets feature two sizes of tufts of varying colors in a loop pile construction Carpet with geometric patterns on the floor in kindergarten. Buryatia, Russia. Carpet is commonly made in widths of 12 and 15 feet (3.7 and 4.6 m) in the US, 4 m and 5 m in Europe.

6. Category:Rugs and carpets - Wikipedia

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7. Kilim motifs - Wikipedia

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   [1] [8] The carpet expert Jon Thompson explains that such an amulet woven into a rug is not a theme: to the weaver, it actually is an amulet, conferring protection by its presence. In his words, to people in the village and tribal cultures that wove kilims, "the device in the rug has a materiality, it generates a field of force able to interact ...