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Kuba Gollu Chichi carpet (Kuba Ağgül) in an ivory ground Code: KUGC11WM Size: 121x196cm Size (ft): 3'11x6'5" Area: 2.37 m2 Density: 160 000 knots per square meter, totally ~380 000 knots Colors: ivory, red, coral, apricot, green, old purple/mauve, dark brown, cinnamon, yellow, green, medium blue, midnight blue, light aqua green.. Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), 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: 0.4cm Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork Inscriptions: 1443 (weaving date), the word "Quba", a tamga (tribal symbol) of Afshar trive. Weaver: Pakiza Weaving Period: Three months Handwoven in Azerbaijan Design: The ivory field with three radiating angular floral medallions surrounded by small floral and hooked motifs. The dark blue ground ivory kufic border (called Shami in Azerbaijan) is in-between the "running water" minor border and outer reciprocal skittle-pattern (arrow head motif "mollabashi") and barber-pole stripes |
 A carpet with a pseudo-kufic border is depicted in this 15th century manuscript of Aq-qoyunlu (White Sheep Turkomans) ruler Yaqub Bey  A rug with the Kufic motif border depicted in "Virgin and Child", by Michel Sittow, c. 1515. Staatliche Museen, Berlin  an illusturation showing the connection of the so called "apple-flower" motif of the Gollu Chichi to the small pattern "Holbein" medallion in this XV century Turkish rug from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar |
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