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		<title>Persian Rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persian Rugs in a Nutshell Genuine Persian rugs are considered fine art that can fill your room with the beauty and unmatched warmth that could only come from the old days. People around the world appreciate Persian rugs for their supreme tradition, gorgeous colors, and fine weaving. When one is looking at a Persian rug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persian Rugs &#8211; Islimi, Ardebil and Shah Abbas Rug Designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 18:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oriental]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persian Rugs &#8211; The Islimi Rug Design The arabesques that have so much importance in Persian rugs can also take on special shapes, as is the case with islimi motif. It consists simply of stem twisted around itself in a spiral, usually ending in two forked leaves that often continue and complicate the overall design. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oriental Rugs &#8211; Structure and Manufacture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oriental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antique oriental rugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carpets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold thread]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner structures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Orient]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sheep wool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primary materials of Oriental rugs have been the same for centuries: wool, cotton, and silk, to which can be added silver and gold thread, although these have been used only for exceptional carpets, those made for shahs and emperors. The materials used, of course, have always depended on their availability in a given production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Concept Of Style In Oriental Rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one approach an expression of art and culture that is so different from one&#8217;s own? In the absence of Western standards and aesthetic categories, how can one formulate judgements about Oriental rugs? In examining a painting, for example, we are aided by the traditional Western concepts of space, perspective, and proportion, etc., and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oriental Rugs From Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[floral designs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In trying to discover anything about Oriental rugs in medieval Egypt, we are more or less confined to literary sources. Some fragments of the textiles that were used as floor coverings, with the loops formed by the weft threads cut open, survive from the time between the eighth and tenth centuries. There is frequent mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typical Features of Anatolian Rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Anatolian rugs consist entirely of wool. Cotton, for warp and weft or for pure white, is very rarely used. The colors are generally bright and varied, though their range is not quite so wide or subtle as in Persian rugs. Red, blue, yellow, green, ivory, and white are the favourites, and the warp and [...]]]></description>
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