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 pile carpet fragment, Turkey. circa 1300-1350. Stockholm National Museet. NM 222/1939

 

Size: 33 x 9.5 cm

NM 222/1939

 

Weft: red, wool, 2-3 shots

 

Knots: 30V x 30H, 900 pdm2 (58 psi)

 

image source: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 8, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt