Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Tainaktsha

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Large shaped horse blanket, examples of which can be either piled or flat-woven. Many Soviet writers also describe a salatshak as a horse or saddle cover.

Talim

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A written description of the numbers of pile knots and their colours to create a specific design. Used in the production of factory rugs.

A southeast Caucasian region known for 19th century rugs with long formats and empty fields. colour of fields is usually red, blue or green. Symmetrical knots were used with a foundation of wool, or ...

Tamgas

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Nomadic livestock brand which may also be a tribal emblem woven into rugs.

Tapestry weave

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Any one of a variety of weaves in which there are no supplementary wefts and the pattern or design is created by ground wefts that are not continuous from selvage to selvage.

Tekke

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The dominant Turkmen tribe in the second half of the nineteenth century, makers of a great variety of refined weavings. Their carpets, eagerly collected by Europeans, were baptised 'Royal Bukhara' by ...

Tianjin

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A port and industrial city in northwest China. Rug production there began around 1910 with factories built for exporting rugs to the United States and Europe. Traditional Chinese rugs with open ...