Karabagh carpet with a sunburst medallion and dragon motifs


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Karabagh carpet with a sunburst medallion and dragon motifs (XVIII century design)

Code: KRBDRSB02

Size: 231x342cm

Size (ft): 7'6"x11'2"

Area: 7.9 m²

Density: 170 000 knots per square meter, totally ~1 million and 300 000 knots

Colors: red, ivory, yellow, green, medium blue, dark brown, light brown, maroon, navy blue.

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: 0.6 cm

Ends: bundled knots

Inscriptions: weaving date, the word "Karabagh" woven with ancient runic Orkhon-Yenisei scripts, the word "Baku" in Kufic style.

Weaver: Leyla, Salima, Konul.

Weaving Period: 6 months

Handwoven in Azerbaijan

Design: The design of the central field was inspired by an 18th-century Karabakh carpet which is the only example featuring a sun medallion and dragons together.

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 (here seen only partly) must have been derived through Iran from the Eastern Turkestan. The other stylized motifs are a pair of fawns, peacocks, pheasant, duck, bird, fish, different forms of trees and flowers. The main border carries a "palmette and swastika meander" motif.

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