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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. Sarouk Persian carpets - Wikipedia

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   The first World Oriental Carpet Exhibition in 1891 in Vienna and another one in London in 1892 created a rising demand for Persian rugs in the west. Companies such as the British-Italian Nearco Castelli Brothers and the Eastern Rug Trading Company of New York established their branches in 1909 in Tabriz and later in Kerman .

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. Oriental rug - Wikipedia

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   Oriental rugs are known for their richly varied designs, but common traditional characteristics identify the design of a carpet as “oriental”. With the exception of pile relief obtained by clipping the pile unevenly, rug design originates from a two-dimensional arrangement of knots in various colours.

6. Shag (fabric) - Wikipedia

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   Close-up of the pile of a shag carpet, including two popular colors of the 1970s: avocado and harvest gold. A shag is a heavy long piled worsted textile. In the 17th century, the term was also used to refer to inferior silk material. [1] [2] Shag became popular as a material for carpets in the 1960s and 1970s. [3]

7. Kerman carpet - Wikipedia

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   Most Ravar or Lavar Kerman carpets include a signature, either that of the weaver or the person for whom the carpet was woven. Antique Persian Kerman rug Vase carpets , a type of Kerman rug distinctive of the 16th and 17th centuries, are characterized by an allover pattern of stylized flowers and oversized palmettes with vases placed throughout ...