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Sheep Breeds of Azerbaijan

Shearing,
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"The advantages of handspun yarn to machine spun yarn"

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Mordants

Difference between synthetically and naturally dyed rugs

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A Turkish rug with the small "Holbein" pattern, early 16th century. Berlin Museum, Germany. inv. no: I 26


 


Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (`The Ambassadors'), 1533
Oil on oak, 207 x 209 cm
National Gallery, London
by Hans Holbein the Younger (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London), a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style