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the alti mountains in central asia. from these early beginnings, carpet weaving rose to its highest art form in turkey, iran, india, and china. using cotton, linen, or hemp as the foundation, and wool or silk as the luxurious pile, weavers would make a knot out of the pile thread, then form a row of knots
that was tightly beaten down. the process was time-consuming: some of the finest handmade carpets have as many as knots per square inch ( knots per sq cm). the brilliant colors of these ancient carpets came from natural dyes such as madder, indigo, genista, woad, and ocher. some weavers added alum to...
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