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Green ground "Talish" Moghan rug with camel caravan motif Code: TL106 Size: 111x157cm Size (ft): 3'7"x5'1" Area: 1.74 m2 Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~290 000 knots Colors: green (4), red, yellow, mustard (camel), medium blue, royal blue, ivory, dark brown, light brown Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, pomegranate skins, 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: 0.4cm Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork Inscriptions: 1439 (=2018 weaving date), tamga (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe Weaver: Aynur Weaving Period: Three months Handwoven in Azerbaijan Design:  Rugs of this composition are among the most powerful and impressive examples of Caucasian village weaving. One of the symbolic interpretations of rug design put forward by Professor Schuyler Cammann and others seems to have a particularly forceful relevance frame acting as a protective barrier between this world and the next. The field is in an ivory border of polychrome rosettes divided by paired quartered lozenges between flower head motif stripes and outer reciprocal skittle-pattern stripe (medakhil) The field design - by Vugar Dadashov

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