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
 


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Ottoman Cairene Medallion Carpet fragments, Textile Museum. published by Ernst Kühnel and Louisa Bellinger,
Cairene Rugs and Others Techinically Related, Washington, DC 1957, plates XXXIV and XXXVI, Textile Museum inventory numbers
R1.135 and R1.133.





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