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 Medieval Period (476-1453) Carpets


 

Pile rug fragment, Near East, ~1100s. Found in Fustat. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

 

Size: 12.5 x 12.5 cm

NM 219/1939

 

Warp: yellowish wool yarn, 2 ply, s spun

 

Weft: yellowish and red woolen yarn, one ply, z-spun

 

Pile: symmetrical, Z spun wool yarns

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 35, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt