Showing posts with label Rugs/Carpets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rugs/Carpets. Show all posts

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Ersari Ensi

This is thought to be the best of type Ersari ensi. Here Jeff Spurr of Harvard talks about the ensi.
http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/254/expert/1/index.html

Thursday, December 11, 2014

ARMENIAN COCHINEAL - Photo

ARMENIAN CARPET - The red dye used in this carpet is unique to the Armenian Highlands. The dye is made from Armenian cochineal, an insect native to the Ararat plain and Aras (Araks) River valley in the Armenian Highlands.
https://www.facebook.com/Art.of.Armenia/photos/pcb.737061469720781/737051043055157/?type=1&theater

Cochineal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

PAZYRYK CARPET - Photos

PAZYRYK CARPET - Of Armenian origin, the Pazyryk carpet, the oldest, single, surviving knotted carpet in existence, excavated from a frozen tomb in Siberia, dated from the 5th to the 3rd century BC. 
https://www.facebook.com/Art.of.Armenia/photos/a.757295911030670.1073741859.355288647898067/757295954363999/?type=1&theater

Tuesday, November 4, 2014