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With the passage of time, the
materials used in carpets, including wool and cotton, decay.
Therefore archaeologists are not able to make any particularly
useful discoveries during archaeological excavations, save for
special circumstances.
What has remained from early times as evidence of
carpet-weaving is nothing more than a few pieces of worn-out
rugs. Such fragments do not help very much in recognizing the
carpet-weaving characteristics of pre-Seljuk period (13th and
14th centuries AD) in Persia.
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Among the oldest pieces discovered are those found in Eastern
Turkestan, dating back to the third to fifth centuries AD, and
also some of the hand-weavings of the Seljuks of Asia Minor on
exhibit in Ala’edin Mosque in Konya and Ashrafoghlu Mosque in
Beyshehir, Turkey. These pieces attracted the attention of
researchers earlier this century, and now they are kept in the
Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul and the Mowlana
Museum in Konya. |
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