Islamic Carpet Making

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Islamic carpet making.

Carpet weaving is an important tradition in islamic culture. Carpets are very popular among islamic countries and are considered objects of everyday life regarded with both esteem and admiration. Within the islamic world especially fine specimens were collected in royal households. The art of carpet weaving was particularly important in the ottoman empire.

However one can find many historical examples of carpets that depict plants animals and even people throughout areas that were under heavy islamic influence at the time the carpet was produced. Other materials such as cotton camel hair goat hair and flax have been used to. The most important textile produced in medieval and early modern islamic empires was the carpet. In iran the carpet and textile industries formed part of shah abbas r.

Persian and oriental rugs whether made in tribal or city surrounding are all hand knotted the weaver ties the material whether it be wool or silk around the warps of the foundation using one of several different knots. One of the tenants held by some of the more orthodox orders of islam is a prohibition against making graven images. The ottoman empire and carpet production. Sheep s wool is the most common material used in the making of traditional arabian carpets.

The ottoman state was founded by turkish tribes in northwestern anatolia in 1299 and became an empire in 1453 after the momentous.