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

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 Difference between synthetically and naturally dyed rugs

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

 

Pile carpet fragment, Turkey. circa 1450-1500. Nationalmuseum (or National Museum of Fine Arts), Stockholm, Sweden. NM 44/1936

 

Size: 18 x 25 cm

NM 44/1936

 

Weft: red, wool, 3 shots

 

Knots: 34V x 32H, 1088 pdm2 (70 psi)

 

image source: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 28, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt