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9 Rug History entries.

A weaving tradition built on Turkmen and Baluch tribal heritage, transformed by forty years of war into one of the most

From the Vienna 1891 Exhibition to the $33.7M Clark Sickle-Leaf Record.

Eight hundred years of village and tribal weaving across Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan, and the Western tra

Two thousand years of Chinese pile weaving, from the Han dynasty saddle blankets and Ming imperial carpets through the N

Five centuries of Indian carpet weaving, from the Mughal court workshops at Agra and Lahore to the Bhadohi-Mirzapur belt

Berber tribal weaving from the Atlas Mountains, the 1920s modernist architects who turned it into a global design langua

The youngest national rug industry by post-partition identity, built almost entirely on reproduction of Persian, Turkmen

2,500 years of artistic tradition - from nomadic Persian tribes to the Safavid golden age and the most collected rugs in

800 years of Anatolian weaving, from the Seljuk carpets at the Alaeddin Mosque to the Hereke workshops that supplied the

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