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AKSTAFA or AKSTAFA PEACOCK DESIGN: A tribal carpet design represents a bird stick figure with long tail feathers illustrious. Currently visit the new carpets with Caucasian based motifs (Kazaks), or antique pieces from the Caucasus or Turkey.

ANTIQUE RUG: A carpet woven 100 or more years ago.

BOTEH: The little tear-drop design, in Paisley. There are many arguments under the carpet to scholars as the significance of this drawing. Some say flames, pear, leaf, pine-cone-and the list goes on. There are numerous renditions of this symbol in the ancient carpets, some geometric, hard to see, unless you are familiar with the basic shape. The flame will be my voice from antiquity that Zoroastrians worshipped fire.

BAF a suffix meaning woven by.

CARPET: A large carpet or oversized, which are usually no less than 9 'x 12' .

CARTOON A picture of the woven carpet (on graph paper), stating the exact placement of each node to be bound in any color to create the design of the rug.

CHINESE RUG: An Oriental carpet woven in China. Sometimes the term "Chino" is the label on a carpet produced in China. An example could be: Chinese-Tabriz, which would be a Tabriz design woven carpet or China.

CITY RUG RUG WORKSHOP: Sometimes these terms are interchangeable. Displays a fine (eng) woven carpet, which is manufactured in workshops with a master Weber ensuring perfect renditions of specific designs and standards. These are woven carpets with the design or pattern, by the Weber for a "cartoon" was carefully drawn to the exact number of nodes in each color. Workshop woven carpets are on metal looms Grae to exact specification, which still something standardized.

DECORATIVE: Shows beauty in a carpet, which is not necessarily a piece of antique or collectible. Example: This carpet is very decorative.

DOBAG: Natural Dye Research and Development Project, Turkey.

ELEPHANT 'S FUSS: Additional name for a large gul on Turkmen carpets originally from Ersari Turkmen Weber. Ersari Turkmen: One of the most fertile weaving groups of Turkomans now in northern Afghanistan and Turkmenistan .. Most know Ersari weaving design is a large octagonal shape called gul in rows on a red background.

FINE or finely woven QUALITY: A term to describe a high number of nodes in the oriental carpet world.

FOUNDATION the carpet: Chain and wefts.

GABBEH: This word means, unfinished or unclipped and was originally a simple, original carpets Weber kept that to themselves and sometimes to sleep in use. Originally had a very long Gabbehs stack and up to 5 or 6 rows of the impacts. With many of these impacts, the carpet can be produced very quickly. See my article "What is a Gabbeh?"

GHANZI: E ground in Afghanistan, southwest of Kabul, known for the manufacture of silky, beautiful wool.

GUL: This term comes from a Persian word means flower. It is a geometric design element, octagonal in shape, usually in connection with rows and Turkmen rugs.

KAZAK: A general term used currently in the world to describe carpet woven carpets with design elements from the Caucasus . Originally, the term for a certain ancient Caucasian rug.

KHAMSEH: 1) Persian tribal affiliation, southern Iran. The Khamseh Weber belong Qashqai, Kurds, Turkmen and Arabic descendants. These 5 tribal groups came together, originally to fight Qashqai. [The root of this word comes from Arabic and means 5th]

** Actual production of plant-dyed tribal carpets from this area of Iran are woven with fantastic hand spun wool in the traditional Persian designs .** above all galleries with names Carpets. Galleries

KILIM or KELIM: A flat woven carpet consists only of chains and impacts without node is tied.

KPSI: knots per square centimeter inch.

OLD: A positive term some years but not antique.

ORIENTAL RUG: A hand woven carpet made of wool, silk or cotton, woven in the Orient. If the term "East" was first coined, it was another word for Asia "The Orient", the East as opposed to "The West" West.

PERSIAN RUG: A hand woven carpet from Iran or the former Persian Empire . See my article "How to Buy an Oriental Rug" for more information on this.

PILE: The actual structure of the carpet. The stack consists of filaments, which tied the knot around the two chains at the base of the carpet. The stack shows the design and IS what you walk when you travel in your carpet! The stack can be trimmed quite short or long left or anything in between. On densely woven carpets are cut shorter, to see how the details of the construction and colors.

QASHQAI: A tribal confederation usually associated with Iran in the province of Fars. According to a reference, the majority of the deceased were Qashqai the Turkmen people. Formerly nomadic, Qashqai many are now settled in villages in southwestern Iran. Their antique carpets are in demand and their new vegetable dyed superlative.

TABRIZ are: 1) A town in Iran known for its finely woven carpets workshop with complex, detailed designs, often with the help of wool and silk in the bunch. 2) An Oriental carpet woven in Tabriz.

TRIBAL RUG: A woven carpet or from nomadic pastoral people in traditional motifs woven with hand-spun wool. Tribal woven carpets were originally on wooden looms, on the ground and dismantled, while the trip. Typically, a tribal rug has a lower node count and a geometric pattern, verses the densely woven floral symmetrical forms usually carpets in the graeren cities. Older pieces of ancient tribal or, in most cases, wool woven on a foundation with vegetable dyes based. Tribal pieces woven textiles would also be in daily life. This includes all documents used within or outside the nomadic dwellings or as animal jewelry, decorative or functional. A few examples are: tent bands, saddle bags, salt bags, etc.

TURKOMAN or TURKMAN: A Turkic tribal group originally from Asia, and Turkmenistan, with a minimum five different sub-tribes in the world famous carpet for the production of excellent quality tribal rugs and jewellery. Most Turkmen carpets are red with a repeating motif called gul octagon. See "GUL" above.

VILLAGE RUG: carpets woven in the villages by former pastoral or nomadic tribal peoples. Village Rugs and carpets tribal leaders were in a group Verses city carpets or rugs workshop at the other end of spectrum.

WARP: vertical threads that are created on the loom as a first step in the creation of a hand woven carpet. When the loom is not maintained, but on the ground, these threads run from top to bottom or along. The knot tied around the two distorted, so that the chain is part of the foundation of the rug.

WEFT: threads, which runs inserted horizontally (side to side), after a series of knots were tied. These impacts of the work to keep the knots in place. A carpet can be one, two, three or more impacts depending on the type of carpet, or place where it will made.

WOOF: An older name for profit. The "impact and the chain" is sometimes used in the literature to the heart of something, it is in the works, the structure or significance.

WORKSHOP RUG: See CITY RUG ".

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