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Khotan rugs history.
Khotan rug history a space reflects a person s personality desires and traditions.
Hotan also known as gosthana gaustana godana godaniya khotan hetian hotien is a major oasis town in southwestern xinjiang an autonomous region in western china the city proper of hotan broke off from the larger hotan county to become an administrative area in its own right in august 1984.
The indigenous population consists of muslim turkic uighurs.
Rugs serve a decorative as well as utilitarian purpose.
The kingdom of khotan had an abundance of natural resources which led to the cultivation of silk.
These exotic rugs were once specified as samarkands.
It includes an aggregation of several cultures such as turkish indian chinese and persian.
Of the three antique rugs from kashgar are most influenced by persian rugs with allover.
Antique khotan rugs the vast majority of the antique rugs which were woven in the east turkestan city of khotan have a style that is all their own these exceptional rugs make the legends of marco polo and the silk road come alive.
All the rugs demonstrate the transition the kingdom of.
Khotan rug floor covering handwoven in or about the ancient city of khotan hotan in the southern uygur autonomous region of xinjiang chinese turkistan.
They combine chinese details with central asian design schemes and western vivid colouring except where recent fugitive dyes have reduced their effect to.
It is the seat of hotan prefecture.
Khotan rugs were once called samarkand rugs after the central asian trading centre.
Antique khotan rug collection.
Khotan rugs carpets.
Today s designs reflect the eclectic nature of our state.
From the han dynasty until at least the tang.
Each piece builds off of one another bouncing ideas back and forth eventually creating a unifying space.
44 640 00 22 320 00 khotan rug hand made from natural wool and organic dyes.
Its popularity was due to the combination of asian aesthetics along with western ideas in mind.
Khotan hotan is the easternmost of the three old silk road oasis cities with kashgar farthest west and yarkand in the middle.
Khotan rugs were once known as samarkand rugs named after the central asian trading center.
Collectively called samarkand rugs woven carpets made by people living in east turkestan oasis towns such as khotan yarkand and kashgar are long somewhat narrow exotic creations offering minimalistic designs realized with glossy wool metallic threads and brocaded silk.
Today they are part of xinjiang province.
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Khotan rugs history.