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A carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. A carpet page is a full page in an illuminated manuscript containing intricate, non-figurative, patterned designs. [1] They are a characteristic feature of Insular manuscripts, and typically placed at the beginning of a Gospel Book. Carpet pages are characterised by mainly geometrical ornamentation ...
"Carpet binding" is a term used for any material being applied to the edge of a carpet to make a rug. Carpet binding is usually cotton or nylon, but also comes in many other materials such as leather. Non-synthetic binding is frequently used with bamboo, grass and wool rugs, but is often used with carpet made from other materials.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Boarisch; Bosanski; Чӑвашла
A Tabriz rug or carpet is a type in the general category of Persian carpets [1] [2] [3] from the city of Tabriz, the capital city of East Azerbaijan province in northwest of Iran. It is one of the oldest rug weaving centers and makes a huge diversity of types of carpets.
It has been suggested that the carpet page is later addition to the manuscript. The carpet page faces the first page of text in the manuscript. The initial P and the opening words Praeceptis tuis par(rui) are many times larger than the rest of the text and are of hollow shafted capitals, with stem of the P descending the entire length of the ...
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.
Anatolian double-niche rug, Konya region, circa 1750–1800. LACMA M.2004.32 Bergama rug, west Anatolia, first half of 18th century.. Anatolian rug or Turkish carpet (Turkish: Türk Halısı) [1] is a term of convenience, commonly used today to denote rugs and carpets woven in Anatolia and its adjacent regions.
Bessarabian rugs and carpets are the commonly given name for rugs in pile and tapestry technique originating in Russian provinces as well as Ukraine and Moldova during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.1 Some scholars will classify flat-woven carpets as Bessarabian, while referring to knotted-pile carpets as Ukrainian.2 They are predominantly from an area corresponding to modern Bulgaria ...