Nov 27 2006
Antique Scandinavian Rugs & Carpets
Contributed by Jason Nazmiyal
Monday, 27 November 2006
The Scandinavian region became aly found their way home with Viking merchants active in Russia and the Byzantine Empire. In the centuries that followed such trade ties introduced the knotted pile carpet from Ottoman Turkey. Indeed one of the earliest surviving Turkish carpets comes from the parish church at Marby, Sweden.
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