Aztec Pattern Wool Cape, via.
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“Aztec” sweater, via.
North American barn quilts. These photos are all from Suzi Barron who has also published a book on the subject. Buy it!
Cross stitch is so text mode! This program is called CompuStitch.
Oh no, more gabber! Following up the previous post, here is more Gabbeh carpets by Behruz Studio. You can see how Gabbeh shares a lot with textmode, compared to other Persian carpet styles that are more like pixel-based pattern art.
Gabbeh carpets made by Behruz Studio. This is an old persian carpet style that is similar to textmode in many ways. It has not-so-precise patterns and a small number of knots per square centimeter. They can be produced rather quickly and cheap. In fact, the word Gabbeh means raw, natural and uncut.
It uses few colours, which are usually quite bright. Shapes are usually rectangular. There can be large fields of the same colour, but they variegated (ie, the colour varies throughout the carpet).
Afghan war rugs seems to be a rich but unknown form of weaving. It originates from the times of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but has continuted through the American occupation aswell. According to Wikipedia:
Little is known about the circumstances of war rugs’ production and distribution, or their makers’ intentions.
