About: Nomadic Rug Traders ~bk

Almost coincidentally in the early 1980’s, an archive of textile history was discovered in Kent UK in a Victorian warehouse now demolished. This was the archival storage of the last remaining hand-block silk printer in London, David Evans and Co. (more…)...

Materials | Colours & Dyes | Blue | Red | Yellow | Black or Brown | White & Ivory | Conclusions |

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Materials

Carpets and kilims (flatweaves) usually have wool, or occasionally silk, as the fibre forming the pile and the pattern.  These are both animal fibres,...