Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Azerbaijan

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Straddling Iran and the Caucasus, this Turkish-speaking province could be the most important rug weaving area in history.

Azo dyes

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Synthetic dyes introduced about 1880 including Ponceau 2R, Amaranth and Roccelline. Many of these dyes have a tendency to run.

Babur

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The babur nama gives a view of the life of a nomadic Central Asian horseman driven from his ancestral lands by the emergent uzbeks to found the Moghul dynasty in N India.

Badam

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Literal translation from all of the Turkic based languages including Uzbek, Turkmen, Farsi 'almond', refers to a pattern seen more often in Ersari weavings used as a border motif.

Bakhshaish

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A village in the Iranian Azerbaijan which is southwest of Heriz. The area is mostly known for its late 19th century carpet production which includes large room size rugs with either the Herati or ...

Bakhtiari

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A nomadic group in southern Persia migrating between the central Zagros mountains and the low-lying areas around Ahvaz; in common with the Lurs they speak a Persian dialect with archaic features. ...