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Uşak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets (Turkish: Uşak Halısı) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Uşak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th ...
The history of carpet weaving in Bergama probably dates back to the 11th century. Bergama carpets survived which date from the early 15th century. The best known carpet type woven for export which is attributed to the Bergama region [67] is the so-called "large pattern Holbein Type", or Holbein Type III. A late descendant of the large-pattern ...
Amongst the rugs carpets preserved in Transylvania are classical Turkish carpets like Holbein, Lotto, and so-called "white ground" Selendi or Ushak carpets. [1] [3] The term "Transylvanian rug" more specifically refers to four distinct types of Anatolian carpets which have survived in Transylvania.
A carpet of the Ottoman Cairene type is depicted in Ludovicus Finsonius' painting The Annunciation. Its border design and guard borders are the same as a carpet in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. [68] A similar carpet has been depicted by Adriaen van der Venne in Geckie met de Kous, 1630.
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Bessarabian rugs and carpets are the commonly given name for rugs in pile and tapestry technique originating in Russian provinces as well as Ukraine and Moldova during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.1 Some scholars will classify flat-woven carpets as Bessarabian, while referring to knotted-pile carpets as Ukrainian.2 They are predominantly from an area corresponding to modern Bulgaria ...
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Max Mara Kate Hudson will never forget her past red carpet looks — thanks to her “extensive archive.” “I save them all,” Hudson, 44, told People in a Friday ...
Soumak flat-weave rug from Quba Rayon or Daghestan, mid-19th century.. Caucasian carpets and rugs are primarily made in villages, rather than in cities. [1] They are made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces, the rugs of the Caucasus normally display bold geometric designs in primary colors.