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
 


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Turkish rug fragment, ~1200-1310, Anatolia, Seljuq Sultanate.  Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. NM 43/1936

 

Size: 40 x 14.5 cm

 

Weft: red, wool, 2 shots

 

Knots: 31V x 28H, 868 pdm2 (56 psi)

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 6, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt