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Attribution

Attribution is an assessment of who made a work or where it was made. In a rug description, it can identify a workshop, weaving community or region. It depends on evidence and can be revised as knowledge improves. A familiar motif alone does not establish an origin.

Also attributed · attributed to

See also Provenance, Signed rug (signature), Persian rug (Iranian rug)

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