DOBAG Carpet Initiative
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DOBAG is the Turkish acronym for "Doğal Boya Araştırma ve Geliştirme Projesi". The project aims at reviving the traditional Turkish art and craft of carpet weaving. It provides inhabitants of a rural
Madder (Rubia tinctorum) plant
Indigo, historical dye collection of the Dresden University of Technology, Germany
DOBAG carpet commissioned for the British Museum's Islamic Gallery
Pile Rug, ca 1875; Southwestern Anatolia
Indigofera tinctoria
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Indigofera tinctoria, also called true indigo, is a species of plant from the bean family that was one of the original sources of indigo dye.
