Oriental Rugs & Carpets

The theories and guesses on the origins of the knotted pile rug are varied indeed, with no real evidence to support them, but in 1952 a remarkable book was published in Russian Finds in the Gorny-Altai and the Scyths by S. I. Rudenko. The book describes Ruden-ko’s expeditions from 1924 onwards in Southern Siberia near [...]