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16-DEC-2008

Birecik dec 2008 7273.jpg

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The large carpet on the picture is a so-called ‘Malatya-Kürt’, second half of the 20th century.
This type of Kurdish knotted carpets is made in de Malatya province, and in the neighbouring districts of the Elazığ, Tünceli and Adiyaman provinces.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘An Introduction to Kurdish Rugs’ – Eagleton William (Scorpion Publishing, Essex, 1988).

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