Karabagh Dragon rug in an ivory ground (based on the design of the Victoria & Albert Museum Karabagh Dragon rug XVII century) CODE: KRBDRGVA04A Size: 206x280cm Size (ft): 6'9"x9'2" Area: 5.76 m2 Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~950 000 to 1 million knots Colors: ivory, aqua green, lawn green, sky blue, medium navy blue, midnight blue, maroon, cinnamon, yellow, red, old purple, hazelnut, dark brown, apricot. Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, natural dark brown sheep wool (ground color of the central field), 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: 0.6cm Ends: single knotted fringes Inscriptions: 1443 (weaving date), the word "Qarabagh" with ancient Orkhon-Yenisei runic scripts, woven with pure handspun Karabagh silk yarns Weaver: Gultekin, Kamila, Yasemen Weaving Period: six month 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. |
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