{"id":3871,"date":"2017-06-28T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:38:56","slug":"bedouin-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/2017\/06\/bedouin-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedouin Rug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3872\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu\/sites\/417\/2017\/06\/Jordan-Rug-webx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"462\" \/>This Bedouin rug was purchased in Amman, the capital city of Jordan, but made in the ancient town of Madaba.\u00a0 The Arabic-speaking Bedouin are a nomadic people who live across the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa.\u00a0 Bedouins in the area of Jordan are traditionally sheep or goat herders, which allowed them to develop a strong weaving tradition using the wool gathered from their own herds.\u00a0 Weavers, conventionally women, make many items suited to a mobile life including rugs, pillows, and other domestic goods.\u00a0 Bedouin geometric patterns, like the ones found in this rug, influenced many other weavers around the world.\u00a0 Bedouin designs are found across North Africa, which influenced the Spanish, which in turn inspired Navajo designs once they arrived in the New World.\u00a0 The rug is currently on display in the Museum in preparation for our <a href=\"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/2017\/01\/cultures-up-close-world-textiles\/\">July 23 workshop<\/a> on world textiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Bedouin rug was purchased in Amman, the capital of Jordan, but made in the ancient town of Madaba.  Bedouin weavers make many items suited to a mobile life including rugs, pillows, and other domestic goods.  Click the link to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"overlay_title":false,"hide_featured_image_post":false,"wfu_hide_page_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artifacts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bedouin Rug - Timothy S. Y. 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