About the Antique Rugs of the Future Project

 Sheep Breeds of Azerbaijan

 Shearing, Sorting, Washing, Carding, Spinning

 "The advantages of handspun yarn to machine spun yarn"

 Rediscovery of Ancient Natural Dyes		 Our Natural Dyestuffs

 Mordants

 Difference between synthetically and naturally dyed rugs

 Weaving and Finishing Steps

 Galleries of ARFP Caucasian Azerbaijani Rugs
 


BACK TO EARLY OTTOMAN AND ANATOLIAN TURKMEN BEYLIKS PERIOD RUGS (XIV-XV CENTURIES)

 

Early Turkish rug fragment, Anatolia. ~1300-1350. The Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden. RKM 321/1935

 

Size: 31 x 25.5 cm

RKM 321/1935

 

Weft: red, wool, 2-3 shots

 

Knots: 36V x 25H (900 knots per square dm/58 psi)

 

image source: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 9, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt