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Kuba Pirebedil rug (Perepedil) in an ivory ground

Code: KUPER154

Size: 154x236cm

Size (ft): 5'0"x7'8"

Area: 3.63 m2

Density: totally ~600 000 knots

Colors: ivory, red, yellow, medium blue, midnight blue, maroon, medium green, aqua green, dark brown, old purple

Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), onion skins, indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, natural dark brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool.

Materials: Handcarded and handspun wool for pile, ivory wool warps and ivory wool wefts (two shots). 1cm of flatwoven kilim ends at both sides. - wool on wool

Knots: Gördes (Turkish, symmetrical)

Pile height: 0.6cm

Ends: thin plaited fringes

Inscriptions: 1440(weaving date)

Weaver: Arzu and Ayten

Weaving Period: 4 months

Handwoven in Azerbaijan
Design: The ivory field scattered with a variety of animals & birds and geometric motifs around alternating ram's horn motifs flanked by hooked dart (or scissors) motifs etc. in a lawn green kufic border.
 

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King Henry on a rug with a kufesque border. Hampton Court Palace 1667 by Remigius van Leemput

 


St Jerome in his Study, 1480, Ognissanti, Florence. by Domenico Ghirlandaio

 


A wood panel with a kufic border from Ibn Tulun mosque, Egypt, XIII century

 


Rams Horn petroglyphs from Gobustan Rocks. III millennium BC.

 

For more information about the above rug or to place an order please email vd@azerbaijanrugs.com (Baku, Azerbaijan) or ra@azerbaijanrugs.com  (San Francisco Bay Area). We will get back to you within 24 hours or less.