Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, Known as Khotan, Samarkand, and Kansu Carpets |
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19th century blossom blue Bokhara border Buddhist carpet craft carpet industry carpet manufacture carpet weaving Central Asia centre Ch'ü-so ch'ü-yü chap China cloud coffer colours cotton cultural Date diagonal dyes dynasty Dzungaria East Turkestan embroidered Ersari felt carpets floral flower foreign Forsyth Grenard Grote-Hasenbalg Gül Herat Hsin-chiang ibid illus India influence Islam jade Kansu carpet Kashgar Kazak Kha-Khan Khan Khotan carpets Khotan oasis Kirghiz knotted carpets lotus material mentioned Ming Mohammedans motif Ninghsia Niya nomads oases oasis original ornamentation Paotou pattern Peking Persian plate pomegranate prayer carpet produced red ground rosettes rugs Samarkand Sennah knots sheep silk carpets Sir Aurel Stein steppes stylized t'a-teng t'an T'ang Tarim basin tendril threads Tibet Turfan Turk tribes Turki Turkish Turkoman warp weavers weft wool wool carpets woollen woven Yarkend yarn yellow Yuan Chuang Yün Tsai T'ou Yurte