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Ivory ground Karabagh Dragon
carpet (XVII century version) Code: KRBDR12O Size: 259x326cm Size (ft): 8'5"x10'8" Area: 8.44 m2 Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~1 million 400 thousand knots Colors: ivory, yellow, light blue, navy blue, maroon, purple, apricot, medium green, hazelnut, dark brown, light brown, cinnamon. 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: 0.5cm Ends: single knotted fringes Inscriptions: 1444 (weaving date), 2 tamgas (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe, the word "Karabagh" in ancient Orkhon-Yenisey runic scripts   Weaver: 4 weavers - Leyla, Arzu, Aynur, Seljan Weaving Period: 5 months Handwoven in Azerbaijan Design: The design with an archaic character is based on the scheme of long serrated leaves forming a diamond lattice, with palmettes at the intersections. The highly conventionalised representations of the three chief mythological animals of Far East, the dragon (ti'en lung), the phoenix (feng huang), the flaming lion above the unicorn (ch'ilin) must have been derived through Iran from the Eastern Turkestan. The other motifs are a pair of fawns, pheasant, duck, bird, domestic animals, different forms of trees and flowers, swastika. The design of the central field is inspired by a historical red-ground Karabagh carpet from the 1600s held in the Wher collection, Switzerland. |
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