What is a Tribal or Nomadic Rug? | News & Information on Antique Oriental and Persian Carpets

Apr 25 2007

What is a Tribal or Nomadic Rug?

Published by admin at 10:45 am under Antique Oriental Rugs, Antique Persian Rugs, Articles

One of the most familiar labels applied to Oriental rugs and carpets, antique and new alike, is the term “tribal.” The label evokes a range of associations, most of which suggest something romantically antithetical to our modern western civilized or urban existence. Tribal rugs were or are presumably made by people with a tribal social organization, very likely nomads dwelling in tents, moving from place to place with the herds of sheep and goats that provided the wool for therugs. Such rugs are thought to be woven in designs that have been handed down faithfully in tribal tradition with little or no change for generations beyond recall.  Read the full article, What is a Tribal or Nomadic Rug?

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