Kuba Perepedil prayer rug with silk highlights in an ivory ground

Kuba Perepedil prayer rug with silk highlights in an ivory ground

Code: KUPER40F

Size (metric): 118x145cm

Size (ft)): 3'10"x4'9"

Area: 1.71m²

Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~ 280 000 knots

Weaving period: 3 months

Colors: madder red, yellow, pine green, light green, apricot, maroon, old purple/mauve, navy blue, dark blue, Persian blue, natural ivory (undyed), natural dark brown (undyed)

Dyes: 100% natural dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), cochineal, indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, natural brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool

Materials: handcarded and handspun wool for pile, handcarded and handspun Karabagh silk yarns for pile, ivory wool warps and ivory wool wefts

Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork

Weavers name: Rahima

Inscriptions: 1444 (weaving date), tamga (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe

Handwoven in Azerbaijan

Design: The ivory field scattered with a variety of animals, birds, tamgas, hourglass, pitcher, book motifs and other tribal and floral motifs around alternating ram's horn and octagon motifs flanked by hooked dart-motifs, an angled keel-arch above, the spandrels with hooked lozenges and "well pulley"motifs, in a dark blue ground so called crab motif main border between polychrome diagonal striped "Pakhlava" (National Azerbaijani layered pastry with walnut filling) and flower head motif minor stripes.

Antique Kuba prayer rugs with a similar design can be seen here:

http://www.azerbaijanrugs.com/guide/kuba/kuba-perepedill/antique_caucasian_kuba_perepedil_rug1.htm

http://www.azerbaijanrugs.com/guide/kuba/kuba-perepedill/antique_caucasian_kuba_perepedil_rug37.htm

http://www.azerbaijanrugs.com/guide/kuba/kuba-perepedill/antique_caucasian_kuba_perepedil_rug12.htm

Simurgh (ancient Iranian benevolent, mythical flying creature) depicted in Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī's "Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt" (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) book. XIII (13^th) century


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