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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Topkapi 'Bellini' Re-entrant Prayer Rug", late 15th or early 16th century, 125x192cm. Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, inv. no. 13/2043. 
published R.E. Mack "From Bazar to Piazza", p.83

 

 

 

 

Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules), fragment
c. 1535
Oil on canvas, 143 x 144 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

by Dosso Dossi
(b. ca. 1490, Ferrara, d. 1542, Ferrara)