Turkistan Rugs

November 3, 2008 – 12:14 pm

Almost everyone has heard of a Bokhara rug, but it is possibly true to say that hardly anyone knows anything more about the wonderful knotted fabrics which come from the two Soviet Republics of Turkmenskaya and Uzbekskaya.
This area, bounded in the south by Persia and Afghanistan, and by the Caspian Sea in the west, is [...]

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Turkistan Prayer Rugs

November 3, 2008 – 11:15 am

This area, now Russian, but also for the purpose of this website encompassing the north-eastern regions of Persia and Afghanistan, can roughly be divided into two parts western and eastern. The eastern section can conveniently be based on Samarkand, where there is a rug market dealing with   the  more   Chinese   influenced   products   of  Khotan, Kashgar [...]

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