| ...fghan rugs - are a distinguished and well recognized handmade material design that originates from afghanistan. they intricate detailing mainly using designs from traditional tribal designs including turkmen, kazakh, baloch, and uzbeks. the hand-made rugs come in many patterns and colors, but the traditional and most common example of an afghan carpet is the octagon-shaped elephant-foot (bukhara) ... |
| ...bokhara rug designs have originated from the samarkand and bokhara region. bokhara rugs in ancient times were hand-woven by peoples of russian turkistan (turkmenistan and uzbekistan). bokhara rugs were primarily the product of tekke turkmens but also were made by sailors, sarqs, yomuts, and ersaris. these famous bokhara designs also come from eastern iran, afghanistan, and pakistan. bokhara rugs h... |
| ...f knotted carpet production are: lahore and peshawar (pakistan), kashmir (india / pakistan), mirzapur, bhadohi, tabriz (iran), afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, turkey, northern africa, nepal, spain, turkmenistan, and tibet. the importance of carpets in the culture of turkmenistan is such that the national flag features a vertical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpet guls (design... |
| ...turkoman rugs are handmade in north-western and eastern iran, parts of turkey, turkmenistan, azerbaijan, uzbekistan, syria, and other parts of the caucasus. they are generally very soft and lush and very similar to one another, and very distinguishable from other persian rugs. the patterns are normally all-over geometric details, known as 'guls', repeated in straight lines on the field, with the m... |
| ...The capitol of Usbekistan and the traditional trading center for Turkmen tribal carpets. Today, rugs called Bukhara are generally commercial copies knotted in Pakistan and India. Actual Turkmen carpets are called by their tribal names to ease confusion with their popular reproductions. Commercial Bukhara carpets are available in about twenty quality gradations, though surface appearance may be sim... |
| ...The fine whiskers from the chin of sheep that are sometimes set aside a special ceremonial carpet. Chin wool carpets are considered finer than silk ones but are very rare. Turkmen tribes most notably use this fiber for their finest carpets... |
| ...Persian word for flower, it describes the common ornaments found in Turkmen carpets. Guls are the design element often mistaken for elephants feet... |
| ...rd that means of the Eastern World or of the land found by ship when Africa has been circled , it has come to more accurately describe characteristics of Turkey, Iran, India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. The modern definition excludes characteristics of China and Indochina now classified as Asian... |
| ...A Turkmen tribe famous for the quality of its rugs that has been virtually wiped out by military conquests. Modern era rugs from this group are rare and highly prized among collectors... |
| ...A Turkmen tribal people known for the quality of their older rugs. Newer units are of dubious construction and design... |
| ...The largest Turkmen tribe in the 19th century thought to make the finest rugs made in the Turkmen style. The Tekke carpets are among those most highly prized by collectors... |