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Kuba Pirebedil (so called Perepedil) rug

Code: KUPER39M

Size: 152x213cm

Size (ft): 5'0"x7'0"

Area: 3.23 m2

Density: 187 000 knots per square meter, totally ~600 000 knots

Colors: midnight blue, pine green, red, gold yellow, ivory, dark brown, old purple, burgundy, light brown, medium 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: 0.4cm

Ends: five rows of decorative knotted meshwork

Weaver: Aynura

Weaving Period: 4 months

Handwoven in Azerbaijan

Design: The dark blue field scattered with a variety of animals & birds and geometric motifs around alternating ram's horn motifs flanked by hooked dart (or scissors) motifs etc. in a madder red kufic border.
 

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A rug with a stylized kufic border depicted in this painting of Carlo Crivelli (Annunciation with St Emidius), 1486. Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 207 x 146,5 cm. National Gallery, London



King Henry on a rug with a kufesque border. Hampton Court Palace 1667 by Remigius van Leemput

 


Portrait of Diego de Guevara, (c. 1515 - 1518), by Michel Sittow (c.1469–1525)

 


St Jerome in his Study, 1480, Ognissanti, Florence. by Domenico Ghirlandaio

 


A wood panel with a kufic border from Ibn Tulun mosque, Egypt, XIII century

 


Bronze pin in the form of rams horn, Azerbaijan. IV millennium BC.

 


Rams Horn petroglyphs from Gobustan Rocks. III millennium BC.

 

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For more information about the above rug or to place an order please email vd@azerbaijanrugs.com