About the Antique Rugs of the Future Project

 Sheep Breeds of Azerbaijan

 Shearing, Sorting, Washing, Carding, Spinning

 "The advantages of handspun yarn to machine spun yarn"

 Rediscovery of Ancient Natural Dyes		 Our Natural Dyestuffs

 Mordants

 Difference between synthetically and naturally dyed rugs

 Weaving and Finishing Steps

 Galleries of ARFP Caucasian Azerbaijani Rugs
 

OTTOMAN CARPETS IN THE XVI - XVII CENTURIES (16-17TH CENTURIES)

 


An Anatolian rug which was sold to the Berlin Museum by Julius-Harry Loytved in the early 20th century. The rug was destroyed during the Bombing of Berlin in 1945 (World War II). Inv. no: 946

 

116x192 cm

Acquired in Konya in 1908. Sarre wrote an interesting article about it (1908). It is also knows as 'Hitler's carpet' (as it was called after 1933)

 



Hittite wall engravings (II millennium BC)

 

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