Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Kilim

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A pileless smooth surfaced weaving in which pattern is formed by the wefts, which completely conceal the warps.

Konya

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

(1) important anatolian weaving and cultural centre; (2) A famous Turkish city of rug production. Prayer rugs with red backgrounds are popular as well as yastiks and mats.

Kork Wool

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The very finest quality wool obtained from the shoulder and flanks of shearing lambs.

Koum Kapi Rug

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Turkish Rug, size - 246x132. Offered at Christie's, London, April 27, 1995 as Lot 494, estimated at GBP 20,000-30,000, sold for 38,000.

A famous Turkish rug production centre as early as the 18th century. Ladik is most known for small prayer rugs with triple arch mihrabs, stepped mihrabs, or two column mihrabs. Main colours are red ...

Lavar

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A village north of Kerman known for very finely knotted Kerman rugs. The name of the village is actually Ravar so these types of Kermans should actually be termed Ravar Kermans as opposed to Lavar ...

Lesghi Star

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A prominent design in Caucasian Rugs which depicts an eight pointed star with four radiating arrows. It is found most frequently on rugs from Dagestan.