Talish rug with Safavid "Birds and Tree" design in a blue ground


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Talish rug with Safavid "Birds and Tree" design in a medium blue ground

Code: TLBT04M

Size: 119x152cm

Size (ft): 3'10"x4'11"

Area: 1.8 m²

Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~300 000 knots

Colors: Medium blue, yellow, ivory, red, maroon, navy blue, purple, apricot, light brown, dark brown, 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: 0.5 cm

Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork

Inscriptions: A tamga (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe

Weaver: Malayka

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 this 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, two birds and tree motif, adopted from a Safavid carpet, are depicted in a shaded medium blue field.

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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