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Ersari carpet

type of Turkmen rug

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ5395771 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ersari carpet is a type of carpet handmade by the Ersari Turkmen of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. More modern carpets may also contain cotton. The colors are dark red, blue, beige and sometimes yellow and blue-green.

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The public source identifies “Ersari carpet” as type of Turkmen rug. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ersari, carpet and type.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ersari, carpet and type providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ersari carpet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.