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> A Persian carpet... looking nice! And it's not too far-fetched, as
> Artaban was a Mede... although I'm not sure whether they had this kind
> of carpets in the Parthian empire during the 1st century BC...
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> On the other hand, I can remember having seen a partially preserved
> carpet from the Achaemenid era (around 500 BC) some 15 years ago in an
> itinerant exhibition of Scythian treasures from the St. Petersburg
> Eremitage... and the ornaments did not look too different from
> modern-day Persian carpets, albeit less detailed!
>
Hi, Yadgar
Thanks for the compliments. Can you point me towards the older designs?
I am trying to keep this as true to the time as possible.
John
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Hi(gh)!
On 05.02.2014 04:08, Doctor John wrote:
> Thanks for the compliments. Can you point me towards the older designs?
> I am trying to keep this as true to the time as possible.
O.k., here they are (the famous Persian/Scythian Pazyryk carpet, 5th
century BC)... I found them on Wikipedia.
Unfortunately, I failed to find images of carpets made around the
beginning of the Christian Era, as far as I know, the next-younger
carpet fragments date from about 400 CE!
But this Achaemenid masterpiece is really stunning... I wonder whether
modern replicas exist, I really could imagine such carpets lying on the
floor of LanuHum's modernist home!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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Hi(gh)!
> But this Achaemenid masterpiece is really stunning... I wonder whether
> modern replicas exist,
Yes, they do... apparently made in Afghanistan! This picture gives a
more complete impression of how this ancient carpet looked like:
http://www.themagiccarpet.biz/afghanistan-pazyryk-p4574/
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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> Hi(gh)!
>
>
>> But this Achaemenid masterpiece is really stunning... I wonder whether
>> modern replicas exist,
>
> Yes, they do... apparently made in Afghanistan! This picture gives a
> more complete impression of how this ancient carpet looked like:
>
> http://www.themagiccarpet.biz/afghanistan-pazyryk-p4574/
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
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Thank you for the images and the link. I will definitely use at least
one of the patterns in my tc-rtc submission
John
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You hold it in trust for your children
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Thanks Yadgar! These carpets are beautiful, showing from how far back
those objects come to us. I shall store them for future use in Gancaloon :-)
Thomas
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Hi(gh)!
On 06.02.2014 09:05, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Thanks Yadgar! These carpets are beautiful, showing from how far back
> those objects come to us. I shall store them for future use in Gancaloon
Carpetry will also be an important issue in Khyberspace/POVghanistan -
fortunately, most Afghan carpets are not as finely woven as the Persian
ones, so it will save memory!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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