Turkmenistan Carpet

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Turkmenistan Carpet or Turkmenistan Rug is one of the eastern rugs that woven in Turkmenistan. Formerly the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic; capital Ashkhabad. Bordered by the Caspian Sea on the west, Iran on the south, Afghanistan on the southeast, and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on the north and northeast. Turkmenistan is considered a part of Western Turkestan.[1]

References

  1. Stone, 2013, 289

Bibliography

  • Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. North Clarendon: Tuttle.