Chinese and Exotic Rugs |
Common terms and phrases
alternate warps depressed appear Balkan Berber border carpet weaving carpets certainly Ch'ien Lung China Chinese art Chinese rugs Colors Colors 11 dark blue Delhi dragon dyes dynasty Eastern Turkestan Eastern Turkestan rug example fabric faded fibers field figures floral fragments green hand-spun Herat inch Edges India Indian carpets Islamic Jaipur Kashgar Khotan kilims late nineteenth century light blue lightly S-plied Knot loom Lou-lan machine-spun Weft major medallion Middle East Moghul Mongol Mongolia Morocco motifs Museum Ninghsia nomads Oriental Rugs origin overcast paintings palmettes Peking Persian knot Persian rugs pieces pile carpets pink plain weave Plate probably rug weaving S-plied Weft saddle rug selvage Senneh loop shades shoots Pile silk single strand stripes suggests symbols technique Textile thread Tibet Tibetan carpet Tibetan rugs Tientsin tion Turkic Turkish Type 3b usually warps weavers weft selvage white Warp woven Yarkand yarn Z-spun