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Antique Agra Rugs & Carpets Agra has been a major center of carpet production since the great period of Mugal art in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Antique Alcaraz Carpets The production of carpets in Spain turned away from designs of oriental inspiration to a more classically derived Renaissance European style.
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Art Deco Rugs & Carpets The term Deco applies to European and certain Chinese carpets that reflect the new movements in modern European decorative arts during the first third of the twentieth century.
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Art Nouveau Rugs & Carpets Carpets were a major part of the great Art Nouveau movement that revolutionized the decorative arts in Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Antique Axminster Rugs & Carpets Antique Axminster carpets were a luxurious nineteenth-century English counterpart to the great Neo-classical designs of French Aubussons and Savonneries.
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French Aubusson Aubusson carpets made in tapestry technique are among the most elegant and luxurious antique floor coverings.
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Antique Persian Bakhtiari Rugs & Carpets Antique Bakhtiari carpets, produced in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, are one of the few types that can encompass nomadic tribal as well as urban Persian design.
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Bessarabian Carpets Antique Bessarabian rugs in pile and tapestry technique occupy a unique place among European carpets.
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Baluch Rugs & Carpets Baluch carpets are among the most varied and unusual antique nomadic Central Asian carpets.
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Bezalel Rugs & Carpets from Israel Antique Bezalel carpets were produced in the earlier twentieth
century as part of a new art school for Jewish immigrants in what
was then British-ruled Palestine.
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Chinese Rugs & Carpets
Antique Chinese carpets have a very long and distinguished history that is largely independent of rug design from Middle East. See also: Ningsia, Peking. |
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Central Asian Nomadic While the dominant nomadic rug and textile production in Central Asia was maintained by the various Turkoman groups like the Tekke, Yomud, etc. |

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Donegal Irish
Donegal carpets, produced during the later nineteenth and the
early twentieth centuries, represent the Irish contribution to
the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau Movements. |
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Primitive Gabbeh Rugs Antique Gabbehs are tribal Persian rugs made with extra high pile
and very simple, graphic designs focused on the use of color,
which can be vibrant or soft and earthy. |

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Greek Island Embroidery They disclose something of the influence of Ottoman Turkish textile arts in their design and coloration. |
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Fine Turkish Hereke Rugs & Carpets - Antique Hereke rugs represent the ultimate in finesse and delicacy within the Turkish production of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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Oriental Hamedan \ Hamadan Antique Hamadan (Hamedan) rugs, generally produced in scatter sizes drew extensively upon the tribal weaving traditions of Iran. |

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Hooked American Indigenous to the Northeast of the United States and Maritime Canada, their production began in the 1840’s. |
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Antique Persian Heriz / Serapi Heriz carpets are among the most recognizable rugs of Iran because of their distinctive monumental designs and the expressive power of their angular drawing. |

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Irish Arts & Crafts
The Arts and Crafts Movement grew out of the design revolution spawned by English artists like William Morris and Christopher Dresser. |
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Ingrain American Ingrain carpets were a form of machine loomed, flatwoven, reversible carpet that became popular in the nineteenth century. |

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Karabagh Rugs & Carpets Karabagh rugs, eagerly sought after by collectors as well as
designers, have one of the oldest and most varied design
traditions of any antique Caucasian rugs. |

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Kazak Rugs from the Caucasus Among the most prized and exciting Caucasian village rugs. Famed for their rich colors, assertive, geometric drawing, and bold, large-scale designs. |

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Kilims Once overlooked as utilitarian, low status items, antique Kilims are now prized as some of the most powerful and authentic weavings of the Middle East. |
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Turkish Konya Rugs Antique Konya rugs are famed and desired for their magnificent color, lustrous wool, and unfettered bold tribal drawing. |
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Lori / Luri Rugs & Carpets Antique Luri rugs, produced by the Lurs of the Zagros Mountains in western Iran, are among the most impressive tribal Persian weavings. |

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Masterpieces
Masterpiece antique rugs and carpets currently in the Nazmiyal Collection. |
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Millefleurs
Antique Millefleurs tapestries of Kashmir in Northern India made in twilled technique are among the finest virtuoso textiles produced in the Orient. |
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Antique Turkish Milas / Melas
Antique Melas rugs from southwestern Turkey are exceedingly beautiful in the finnesse of their weave and drawing, and in the subtlety of their coloration. |
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Moroccan Rugs & Carpets
Moroccan rugs are notable for their dynamic colorful designs and for their strong sense of geometric structure. |

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American Navajo Rugs
Navajo rugs, particularly the great ones, represent the native American contribution to the world of textile production. |

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Antique NorthWest Rugs & Carpets
The term Northwest was coined to denote highly interesting and possibly early antique pieces that were clearly made in Northwest Iran. |
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Polonaise Rugs & Carpets
Embellished with threads in precious metals, antique Polonaise carpets are among the most elegant and lavish of the court productions made under the Safavid dynasty . |
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Scandinavian Carpets
... by the ninth or tenth centuries, when Islamic silk textiles found their way to Scandinavia with Viking merchants. |
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Antique Persian Serapi / Heriz
The term Serapi is an invention of the market, but it nevertheless signifies a real distinction - Serapis are the very best and probably the oldest Herizes. |
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Decorative Spanish Rugs & Carpets
Although Spain is not generally thought of as a rug producing region, Spanish carpets represent the most venerable and honored tradition of rug production in Europe. |

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Ukrainian Rugs & Carpets
Pile carpets produced in the Ukraine are related to the Savonnerie carpets of Western Europe from France and Spain, or Axminsters from England. |

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Uzbek Rugs & Embroideries - Antique Uzbek embroideries are among the boldest and most exciting examples of this technique from Central Asia.
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Wagireh
The Wagireh or Sampler rug is perhaps the most enigmatic of carpets. Made as a template or pattern for the design and production of larger carpets... |
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Wilton Rugs & Carpets
Although they were machine-made rather than hand woven, Wilton carpets from England are quite sought after for their elegance... |

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Yastik
Yastiks or pillow or bolster covers - are the most desirable of small Turkish rugs, eagerly sought after by collectors... |

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Zakatala
Zakatala rugs, produced in the South Caucasus are some of the rarest and most collectible village weavings of this region. |