The field guide · Kinds of rug
Village rug قالی روستایی
A village rug is woven by settled villagers, usually at a vertical loom fixed in place. Many village rugs are traditional designs woven without a drawn pattern, though villages near the weaving towns also weave to merchants' cartoons. A single label can cover both village and nomadic work: the Met notes that large Bakhtiari pile carpets are mainly village work, while Bakhtiari bags are woven by nomads.
Also village carpet · village weaving · rural rug · cottage rug
See also City rug (workshop rug), Tribal rug, Loom, Cartoon, Vagireh (sampler), Bakhtiari, Chahar Mahal
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