Born in Transylvania, Theodor Tuduc (1888–1983) was a Romanian master weaver, rug restorer and famous rug forger. Much of his weaving was done in his workshop in Brasov between 1919 and 1945. He made high quality,exact reproductions(including Transylvanian, Lotto, Chintamani and Spanish armorial carpets) of Anatolian, Caucasian and Persian carpets from the 15th 16th and 17th centuries and passed them off as authentic. His technical skills were so refined that many of his, now famous, Tuduc rugs fooled scholars as J.F. Ballard, M.S. Dimand, Kurt Erdmann, Joseph V. McMullan, Ulrich Schürmann and were acquired by prestigious museums such as the National Museum of Art, Bucharest; The Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu; The Art Museum, Brasov; The Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto; The Nickle Arts Museum of Calgary, and others still undiscovered.