Design: Aksakal Behzad Size: 2.38m x 1.46m Date: 2005
| Aksakal Behzad (Old Men Behzad) Named after the group of old men sitting around the carpet, this is another of Behzad's paintings. |
Design: Aksakal Behzad
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Design: Alti Buchek
| Alti Buchek (Hexagon) This design illustrates Shirin receiving a portrait of Husrov, part of an epic love story found in Nizami's Hamza. |
Design: Alti Buchek Size: 1.85m x 1.36m Date: 2003
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Design: Alti Buchek Size: 1.65m x 1.23m Date: 2006
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Design: Alti Buchek Size: 1.3m x 1.94m Date: 2007
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Design: Alti Buchek
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Design: Alti Buchek
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Design: Alti Buchek Date: 2004
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Design: Alti Buchek
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Design: Alti Buchek
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Design: Bahram Gur
| Bahram Gur The original Timruid manuscript for this rug is now in the Royal Asiatic Collection, London, and can be viewed in their catalogue. |
Design: Bahram Gur Size: 1.35m x 1.32m Date: 2004
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Design: Bahram Gur
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Design: Bahram Gur
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Design: Behzad Size: 2.14m x 1.4m Date: 2004
| Behzad One of the earliest demonstrations of a madallion-style in Timurid carpets, this miniature was painted by Behzad, prince of painters. |
Design: Behzad Size: 3.56m x 2.26m Date: 2005
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Design: Behzad Size: 2.26m x 3.56m Date: 2005
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Design: Benaki
| Benaki This design is named after the only surviving Timurid carpet fragment we know about, currently on exhibit in the Benaki museum in Greece. As there is no border in the original fragment, we have woven it with a number of different classical Timurid borders. |
Design: Benaki Size: 2.38m x 1.38m Date: 2003
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Design: Benaki Size: 1.7m x 1.16m Date: 2004
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Design: Benaki Size: 1.77m x 1.18m Date: 2005
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Design: Benaki Size: 1.65m x 1.17m Date: 2006
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Benaki
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Design: Beshik Size: 1.68m x 1.3m Date: 2005
| Beshik (Cradle) This design is named after the cradle sitting on the design. It is a classical Timurid carpet. |
Design: Beshik Size: 1.24m x 1.82m Date: 2006
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Design: Beshik Size: 1.24m x 1.82m Date: 2006
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Design: Burgut Size: 1.98m x 1.4m Date: 2006
| Burgut This design, named after the falconer sitting on the carpet, comes from a miniature frontispiece depicting the coronation of Amir Timur in Balkh. |
Design: Farkhad Size: 1.33m x 1.7m Date: 2004
| Farkhad This Timurid design is named after the main character in an epic Persian love story. Although the carpets are barely visible in the banqueting scene, there is enough there for us to use the design. |
Design: Farkhad Size: 1.49m x 1.25m Date: 2006
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Design: Holbein Size: 2.72m x 1.46m Date: 2005
| Holbein This rug is actually an amalgamation of a few rugs found in Holbein paintings. Whilst the field design usually remained the same in all cases, there were small changes in the minor borders. Although woven in Anatolia, the Kufic borders display their Timurid heritage. |
Design: Holbein Size: 1.64m x 1.23m Date: 2006
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Design: Holbein Size: 1.44m x 1.96m Date: 2007
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Design: Humayan
| Humayan This design comes from an earlier Timurid miniature, recording in lavish detail the wedding festivities of Humayan. |
Design: Humayan
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Design: Humayan Size: 1.92m x 1.34m Date: 2004
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Design: Humayan
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Design: Humayan
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Design: Husrov Size: 1.68m x 1.27m Date: 2005
| Husrov The tragic love story of Husrov and Shirin is the Eastern equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. In this miniature Husrov meets with the Khan. |
Design: Husrov Size: 1.18m x 1.5m Date: 2006
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Design: Husrov
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Design: Husrov Shirin Size: 1.51m x 1.185m Date: 2005
| Husrov Shirin Taken from a Timurid miniature depicting Husrov meeting Shirin. |
Design: Isfandir Size: 2.05m x 1.87m Date: 2005
| Isfandir This classical Timurid piece comes from a miniature from the mid fifteenth century. |
Design: Iskandir Size: 1.7m x 1.36m Date: 2003
| Iskandir This design comes from a manuscript now in posession of the Royal Asiatic Society in London. |
Design: Lotto Size: 1.78m x 1.25m Date: 2004
| Lotto Like the Holbein rug, this design was produced in Anatolia and appears in Rennaisance paintings. Its border demonstrate its Timurid heritage. The design is the forebear of the modern and more floral ushak carpets produced in Turkey today. |
Design: Mehmon Size: 3m x 2m Date: 2003
| Mehmon (Guest) The design is based on a miniature often attributed to Behzad. |
Design: Mehmon Size: 1.82m x 1.32m Date: 2006
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Design: Mehmon
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Design: Mirza Borg Size: 2.56m x 1.93m Date: 2003
| Mirza Borg (Prime Minister's Garden) The design comes from a late Timurid piece. Already the borders appear more Safavid in style. |
Design: Moghul Size: 1.81m x 1.5m Date: 2004
| Moghul This unusual carpet appears in a 16th century Moghul miniature. Whilst the field design is clearly Timurid, the border in the miniature has been changed. We have woven it with the Alti Buchek border. |
Design: Mongol Size: 1.77m x 1.24m Date: 2005
| Mongol This miniature depicting the funeral of Alexander the Great precedes the Timurid period and is a mongolian miniature. |
Design: Mongol
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Design: Mongol
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Design: Narda Size: 2.3m x 1.22m Date: 2004
| Narda (Backgammon) Named after the game backgammon, this design is taken from a classical Timurid miniature. |
Design: Narda Size: 1.71m x 1.31m Date: 2006
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Design: Narda
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Design: Pod Shox Size: 2.46m x 1.91m Date: 2005
| Pod Shox This miniature - the frontcover of the Turks exhibition at the Royal Academy in London - is part of the Topkapi collection in Istanbul. The rug design is unique as the border on either side of the seated Pod-Shox is different in the original miniature. |
Design: Rustam Size: 2.1m x 1.36m Date: 2004
| Rustam Although the reclining figure of Rustam covers most of the carpet, there is just enough pattern tesselation visible for us to copy the design onto graphpaper. |
Design: Shah Rukh Size: 2.23m x 1.57m Date: 2003
| Shah Rukh Tamerlane's son, Shah Rukh, founded the Herati school of miniature painting where this, and many other miniatures were painted. The design demonstrates a masterful use of shape and colour. |
Design: Shah Rukh
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Design: Shapur Size: 1.85m x 1.38m Date: 2004
| Shapur A design taken from Nizami's Hamza and illustrating the love story of Husrov and Shirin. It was Shapur who introduced them to each other. |
Design: Shirin Size: 1.695m x 1.2m Date: 2005
| Shirin Named after the heroine of Nizami's Hamza, here Shirin awaits news of her beloved Husrov. The design is classical Timurid. |
Design: Shirin
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Design: Shirin
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Design: Shirin
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Design: Shirin
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Design: Tahmineh Size: 1.92m x 1.45m Date: 2005
| Tahmineh Another classical Timurid design |
Design: Tahmineh Size: 1.83m x 1.29m Date: 2006
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Design: Tengi Gul Size: 1.88m x 1.45m Date: 2005
| Tengi Gul (Money Flower) This is a classical Timurid design. |
Design: Timurid Joy Namaz Size: 1.1m x 0.85m Date: 2004
We decided not to weave the entire communal prayer carpet, shrinking the border and using just one panel to make these smaller prayer rugs. | Timurid Joy Namaz (Timurid Prayer Mat) This design is taken from one panel of the communal prayer carpet in this miniature. |