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Red ground Karabagh Dragon carpet (XVII century version)

Code: KRBDR12JL

Size: 257x329cm

Size (ft): 8'5"x10'9"

Area: 8.45 m2

Density: totally ~1 million 500 thousand knots

Colors: red, ivory, navy blue, yellow, sky blue, cinnamon, apricot, old purple, dark green, light green, hazelnut, dark brown, 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: 0.5cm

Ends: single knotted fringes

Inscriptions: 2 tamgas (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe

      


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.



Dragons

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