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Also Known As	bird carpet • White Ushak

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Figure 86: Wool “bird carpet,” possibly from Usak, Turkey, 17th century. The ivory white ground is patterned with an allover, stylized floral motif reminiscent of a bird. In the Metropolitan Museum of

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