Carpet Designs
The designs are based on Netherlandish and Flemish textiles and paintings. Beacuse many of these wevaers settled in South-eastern England in Norwihc the 14 extant 16th and 17th century carpets are sometimes refrered to as Noriwch carpets. These works are either adaptations of Anatolian or Idno-Persian deisgns or employ Elizabethan-Jacobean scrolling vines and blossoms. Neolcassical designer Robert Adam supplied dseigns for both Moorifelds and Axminster carpets based on Roman floor mosaics and coffered ceilings. Axminster Rocooc designs often have a brown ground adn include ibrds copied from popular, contemporary engravings. Normlaly many coloured yarns are used and htis process is capable of producing intricate pattenrs from pre-determined designs. Many fo the 15th-century, Spanish carpets erly heavily on desings originally developed on the Anatolian Peninsula.
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