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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 998121, member: 6444&quot;]I am more interested in collecting old Caucasian rugs myself, though I have passing knowledge of other oriental carpets and a few lying around. I didn&#039;t comment earlier since I thought Kyratango was exactly right with her comment about it being Turkoman Bokhara (as you can see the spelling of oriental carpets is rather &quot;flexible&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>My experience (which I can&#039;t give internet citations for so you may want to question and verify) is that the older carpets (pre 20th century) were named based on where they found a particular pattern being made. So Bokhara is a city in Uzbekistan, Heriz a city in Persia/Iran, etc. But then the traders started modifying those patterns based on the colors and designs they knew they could sell, and they started having those designs made where they had makers available, so designs were no longer necessarily made where the designs were originally from. And they started giving exact pixel by pixel patterns to their weavers, which were followed very closely. Yours looks like it is made by someone following a very exact pattern, so not an early Bokhara, but a later post-WW2 rug, possibly made in Uzbekistan but possibly elsewhere, in my opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now here is a link to an almost identical carpet (but in brighter colors) from a seller of used carpets (I have no experience with this company), described as Bokhara Turkoman, made in Pakistan, wool on wool. They don&#039;t give a date, but it looks like they sell their old/antique carpets in a different category, so this is probably late 20th century or so: <a href="https://carpetonline.co/tribal/bokhara-turkoman-rug-000414-area-rugs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://carpetonline.co/tribal/bokhara-turkoman-rug-000414-area-rugs" rel="nofollow">https://carpetonline.co/tribal/bokhara-turkoman-rug-000414-area-rugs</a></p><p><img src="https://carpetonline.co/image/cache/catalog/000414/carpetonline-000414-01-1600x1067.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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