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Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Ladik

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

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 ...

Lahore

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A city in northern Pakistan which currently produces Turkoman design rugs, Chubi rugs. During the 17th century Lahore was a major rug weaving centre for the British East India Company. In the 19th ...

Lavar (Ravar)

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 ...

Lenkoran

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A Caucasus town on the Caspian sea which has a medallion named after the city. The medallion resembles a geometric crab with two or four arms. The medallion has been used commonly on Kazaks, ...

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.

Lilihan

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A town south of Arak in western Iran which is known for rugs similar in design to Sarouks. Like Sarouks, many Lilihans were exported to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s and were painted with ...

Khotan

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A city in Eastern Turkestan (western China) which produced fine quality rugs in the 18th and 19th centuries. Designs are usually of three medallions embedded on a red or purple field. Sizes are ...

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