Code: KUPER34 Size (metric): 106x156cm Size (ft)): 3'5"x5'1" Area: 1.65m2 Density: 170 000 knots per square meter, totally ~ 280 000 knots Weaving period: 3 months Colors: madder red, yellow, medium green, light green, old purple/mauve, midnight blue, Persian blue, natural ivory (undyed), natural dark brown (undyed) Dyes: 100% natural dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, natural brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool Materials: all wool, handcarded and handspun wool for pile, ivory wool warps and ivory wool wefts Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork Weavers name: Shahla Handwoven in Azerbaijan Design: It carries the main features of the small sized mid 19th century Perepedil prayer rugs. The ivory field scattered with a variety of animals, birds, tamgas, tribal and floral motifs around alternating ram's horn and octagon motifs flanked by hooked dart-motifs, an angled keel-arch above, the spandrels with hooked lozenges and "well pulley"motifs, in a dark blue broad kufic border between polychrome diagonal striped "Pakhlava" (National Azerbaijani layered pastry with walnut filling) and flower head motif minor stripes Dated and signed with the tamga of Afshar tribe. |
Simurgh (ancient Iranian benevolent, mythical flying creature) depicted in Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī's "Ajāib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāib al-mawjūdāt" (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) book. XIII (13th) century |
Contact us for more information about this rug
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For more information about the above rug or to place an order please email vd@azerbaijanrugs.com (Baku, Azerbaijan) or ra@azerbaijanrugs.com (San Francisco Bay Area). We will get back to you within 24 hours or less. |