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Talish rug with fish motives
adopted from a historical Safavid carpet Code: TLF01J Size: 114x160cm Size (ft): 3'8"x5'2" Area: 1.82 m2 Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~300 000 knots Colors: sky blue, navy blue, ivory, sage green, lawn green, red, yellow, dark brown, apricot, old purple, maroon. Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), cochineal, 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: 0.5 cm Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork Inscriptions: The word "Baku" with ancient Runic scripts Weaver: Vasila Weaving Period: 4 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. Here, fish motives, adopted from a Safavid carpet, are depicted in a shaded sky blue field - symbolizing water. The field is framed in an ivory border of polychrome rosettes divided by paired quartered lozenges between flower head motif stripes and outer reciprocal skittle-pattern stripe (medakhil). |
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