| ...the hardest wearing rugs. bokharas are recommended more for decorative use than high traffic areas. bokharas usually come in greens, reds, whites, and browns. you'll hear these referred to as beshir, turkoman, or samarkand.
bokhara artisans would incorporate a weave cotton warp and weft (old turkomans were almost always on wool foundation) in a huge variety of qualities, from really bad rugs with... |
| ...two major rug producing areas in central asia are the caucasian and turkoman
regions, which are justifiably famous for the high quality weaves of their
nomadic tribes. the caucasus is a difficult mountain area between the caspian
and black seas and, although the region now belongs to the ussr, it has been
home to many different tribes from turkey, armenia and persia, all of which have
co... |
| ...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... |
| ...Turkoman rugs are referred to as Bukharas. The pattern most associated with these rugs is that of rows of repeated geometric motifs, or guls, woven on a red background... |