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Guide To Caucasian Prayer Rugs: "Caucasian Prayer Rugs Of all rugs Caucasian Prayer Rugs are some of the most popular. Here I mean to gather together my notes on them and in time flesh the notes out with more detail. If you want it all faster get a copy of Kaffel, Ralph. Caucasian Prayer Rugs. London, UK. Laurence King in Association with Hali, 1998 The Vance Jordan Kazak Prayer Rug Kazak Prayer

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Notes on Paul Wolfowitz: "Under his leadership, the Policy Staff played a major role in reviewing war plans for the Gulf War, and developing and executing plans that successfully raised more than $50 billion in Allied financial support for the war and prevented Iraq from opening a second front with Israel. Other key initiatives included the development of the Regional Defense Strategy, the Base

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La Miniature En Orient Plate 42: The Sleep of Rustam: "Washington DC Area - BWI - Dulles - National - Airport Limousine Service The Sleep of Rustam Plate 42. Persia, Mid 15th century, Formerly in the Martin Collection, Stockholm Sweden. La Miniature En Orient by Ernst Kuhnel 1925 Translator's Note: While Kuhnel did not attribute this painting to an artist it is now widely viewed as the work of

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Islamic art and Persian Miniature Paintings: "Visit More Oriental Rug Notes by Barry O'Connell The Plates of La Miniature En Orient This is a look at some fine works of Islamic art. Following my tastes it leans more towards sixteenth century Persian Miniature painting. The biggest problem with these is getting good pictures. So I hope you enjoy what I have found so far. Plate 42: The Sleep of

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Washington DC Area Airport Limousine Service Serving Dulles, BWI and Reagan National Airports: "Washington Webb Sedan and Limousine Service Specializing in Reagan National, Dulles and BWI Airport and the greater Baltimore Washington Area with Quality Limousine Service by Kevin. No one can get you into and out of Reagan National, Dulles and BWI faster. Call Kevin at 301-220-3294 or Mobile: 240

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MUENCHEN TEXTILE ART Munich Textile Art will take place from March 4th to 7th 2004. The exhibition includes antique rugs, flatweaves, tapestries and textiles from reputable exhibitors. The exhibitors includes Galerie Frauenknecht, Galerie Arabesque, Ex Oriente, Adil Bisim - to mention a few of the announced exhibitors. There will be more than 20 exhibitors this year. Bertram Frauenknecht

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The James C. Allen Azeri Gendge Rug: "Gendge rugs and Kazak rugs are closely related. One important attribution is the wefts.First of all Gendge and Kazak rugs commonly have red wefts. They also have variation in the number of shots of wefts. Here we can see places where they used two shots and others where they used 4. Most Caucasian rugs have two shots of tan white or brown wefts. When you see

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Guide to Bolnisi Bordjalou rugs: "Type A is a very different rug than Type B. The two center field latch hook medallions in Type A are much closer to the secondary medallions in a Lori Pambak Rug then they are to any of the iconography of Type B. Since Type B is from Gardabani where we have the greatest concentration in Georgian Bordjalu and Type A is most similar to Armenian rugs I came to the

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A Guide To Pin-wheel Kazaks: "Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers page 137 plate 54 shows a 1928 Zakgostorg Lithograph of a pin-wheel Kazak ascribed to the village of Kuttar in the Borchalo district. I believe that the village of Kuttar in the Borchalo district is Kurtlyar in the district of Marneuli in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. I am not suggesting that all pinwheel

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The James C. Allen Fachralo Kazak Prayer Rug: "The James C. Allen Fachralo Kazak Prayer Rug Here is a late 19th century Fachralo Kazak Prayer rug in mint condition. The blacks are corroded. The dyes are all the absolute finest most saturated vegetable dyes I have seen on a rug of this type. A highly desirable and perfect Caucasian collectors piece."

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Guide to Kazak Rugs: "So while not all Kazak (and Gendge) rugs are Armenian I believe most of what we know as Kazak is Armenian"

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Persian Rugs - Information on Persian rugs and carpets: "Information on Persian rugs and carpets on www JOZAN MAGAZINE: Jozan Magazine includes a large educational rug photo gallery with several hundreds photos of Persian rugs. Visit Educational Persian Gallery. ORIENTAL RUG NOTES: Barry O'Connell's Oriental Rug Notes includes several rug guides on Persian rugs. Visit Guide to the Persian Carpet

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The Persian Carpet: "The Persian Carpet The Persian Carpet Blog. My casual look at Persian Rugs and Carpets"

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The James C. Allen Fachralo Kazak Prayer Rug: "Here is a rare Caucasian weaving from Karachopf, a Karachopk Prayer Rug. This ancient center was renowned for the largest and most beautiful carpets from the Caucasus Mountains in the second half of the 19th century. Many people are aware that Karachopf carpets have sold for many tens of thousands of dollars, even fifty thousand isn't too hard to

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Guide to Kazak Rugs: "Guide To Kazak Rugs" Kazak rug is a misnomer. After all this time it now appears that I have to reassess all Kazak rugs. The weight of overwhelming historical evidence indicates that Kazak rugs were woven by Armenians from the commercial period onwards. If the Kazak rug has red wefts and is post 1830 then Armenian is the only reasonable attribution.

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Visit my new Blog on Gendge Rugs. Best wishes, Barry www.spongobongo.com

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Shikhly Kazak Rug c. 1910: "The late Azerbaijani writer Lyatif Kerimov attributed the rare rugs of this distinctive design to the district of Shikhly and its eponymous capital in the Kazak area, an attribution subsequently followed by other writers. "

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Guide to Karachopf Kazak Rugs: "I recently called John Wertime to discuss this project in regards to the book he and Dick Wright wrote Caucasian Carpets and Covers. I explained how I was using their work to build upon for my theory. I had previously written: 'Wright, and Wertime in Caucasian Carpets and Covers page 137 show a Karachopf which they attribute to Borchalo district Karachop village.

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Antique Kazak Rug: "Antique Kazak Rug In Caucasian Rugs COLOR is the Critical Factor This Rug has outstanding COLOR. This Rug has excellent drawing and the juxtaposition of color in the field elements prevents the piece from being too crowded. January 9th 1998 a West Virginia bedroom dealer was supposed to give the Saturday Rug Appreciation program at the Textile Museum but due to the weather

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The James C. Allen Fachralo Kazak Prayer Rug: "This is a splendid Fachralo Kazak Prayer Rug. The yellow main border is unusual . The main field design is less common as well. Jim Allen attributes this type of rug to Fachralo. See a closely related piece from Jim. The James C. Allen Fachralo Kazak Prayer Rug."

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Sotheby's Type B Star Kazak Rug w/structure: "Star Kazak rugs, such as the present lot. have long been justifiably appreciated by scholars and collectors for their bold and distinctive designs woven in vibrant colors. The rug offered here is a previously unpublished example from the group of some forty known Star Kazak rugs. The present lot shares with all Star Kazak rugs a schematic design of

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Hello, This is my new Blog on Kazak Rugs. Best wishes, Barry www.spongobongo.com

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