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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Small pattern Holbein carpet, XVI century, Ottoman Empire, Western Turkey. Keir Collection. published Islamic Carpets and Textiles in the Keir Collection by Fredrich Spuhler. Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1978

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