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OLD HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF RUG WEAVING NATIONS
 CENTRAL ASIA (UZBEKS, TURKMENS, KAZAKHS, KYRGYZS, TAJIKS) |
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 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (ARABS, JEWS, KURDS, BERBERS) |
 NOMADS OF SIBERIA, ALTAI, URAL AND EASTERN TURKESTAN |
Note
1) All the colored photos in "Azerbaijan & Northern Caucasia" and "Central Asia" sections were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire for Tsar Nicholas II. He was able to capture color by taking three pictures of each scene, each with a different red, green or blue color filter.
2) All the colored photos in Middle East and North Africa Section was made by photochrom method. Photochrom is used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative, using between four and fourteen lithograph stones, made from rocklike substances, to colorize the print with several different inks. The photochrom process was most popular in the 1890s, when color photography was first being developed but commercially impractical.
