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Kurdish couple displaying typical colorful handmade carpet
Kurdish rugs (Kurdish : قالی کوردی ) are rugs woven by the Kurdish people in West Asia , predominantly the larger Kurdistan region including the Eastern part of Turkey near the Taurus Mountains , Northern Iraq, southernmost Caucasus , Armenia and North-Western Iran.[1] When referring to Kurdish rugs within the rug industry, one is referring to those made within Iranian Kurdistan.[1]
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Antique Kurdish Rug, (date: 1207 AH)
Kurdish Jajim carpet from Bojnurd
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^ a b Neff, Ivan C. and Carol V. Maggs. Dictionary of Oriental Rugs. London: AD. Donker LTD, 1977. ISBN 978-0-949937-35-3
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Rugs and carpets
Rugs Carpets People
James F. Ballard
Sir Francis Crossley
Kurt Erdmann
Arthur T. Gregorian
Arshag Karagheusian
Latif Karimov
Julius Lessing
William Morris
George H. Myers
Arthur Upham Pope
Alois Riegl
Friedrich Sarre
Wilhelm von Bode
Thomas Whitty
Charles T. Yerkes
Places
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum
Carpet Museum of Iran
Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah
Brukenthal National Museum
Kidderminster
Louvre
Mevlana Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Miho Museum
Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Museum of Textiles (Lyon)
Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
Saint Louis Art Museum
Textile Museum (George Washington University)
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Turkmen Carpet Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wilton
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Madder (Rubia tinctorum)
Indigofera tinctoria
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