Oriental carpets: curator's introduction
My name is Jennifer Weardon and I'm a textile curator in the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion in the Victoria & Albert Museum. For the last twenty years I've been responsible for the Museum's collection of oriental carpets.
I'll be using fragments from the Museum's collection to show you how to examine the structure of a hand-knotted carpet.
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