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Navajo  -  Navajo rugs represent the native American contribution to the world of textile production. Navajo rugs are most prized that have a more authentic design tradition related to other native American crafts or media. Those that have vegetal dyes predating the introduction of industrial synthetics are also most desirable.  

Needlepoint  -  Needlepoint embroidery technique was a medium used in Renaissance Europe to produce copies of rare and precious knotted carpets from the Middle East.. From the eighteenth century on, English needlepoint competed as well with contemporary French petit-point embroidery working in a Neo-Classical idiom related to the designs of Aubusson tapestry. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, English needlepoint began to focus more on designs drawn form the Arts and Crafts Movement. 

New  - A term used to distinguish a rug less than thirty years old. 

Ninghsia  -  Ningshia rugs tend to be among the most reserved and formal Chinese rugs. Their composition is classically Chinese - open, balanced, and stately with dragon, cloudband, and fretwork motifs. Because of their fine technique, restraint and classic character, Ningshia carpets have often been held to products of imperial Chinese workshops.  

Nomadic rug  - A rug woven by nomadic peoples on a portable horizontal loom. Such weaving comprises not only floor rugs, but also various types of tent equipment  - door or entrance decorations, and a variety of storage bags. While primarily or initially produced for practical local consumption, nomadic weavings were also made for commercial export. Also see tribal rug. 

Northwest Persian  -  The term Northwest was coined to denote highly interesting and possibly early antique pieces that were clearly made in Northwest Persia, but whose production cannot be located more closely. It is used especially for smaller rugs of a tribal or village nature exhibiting ties to Caucasian and Kurdish weaving traditions, as well as to North Iranian weavings like those from Bakshaish, Serab, Heriz, Karadja etc., but which nevertheless are distinctive and stand apart.  

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