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Caucasian Kuba
Konagkend Sumakh Flatweave
Code: KUSU10
Size: 200x230cm
Size (ft): 6'6"x7'6"
Area: 4.6 m2
Dyes: 100% natural dyes: madder, spurge / euphorbia, indigo,
pomegranate skins
Materials: Handcarded and handspun wool
Weaving method:
Wefts
(horizontal yarns) are wrapped around the warps (vertical strands of wool;
fringe is a part of it).
Hand woven in Northern Kuba, Azerbaijan
Design: The light brick-red field scattered with small floral
lozenges and rosettes together with a stepped alternating sea-blue lozenge medallion,
containing angular floral and geometric tribal motifs around a central
madder red octagonal panel with rosettes and a cruciform centrepiece, the lozenges
divided by paired golden yellow octagonal panels, each flanked by
dart-motifs, the design enclosed within a band of various rosettes and
floral lozenges, in a main border of alternating polychrome horned motifs
between X motif minor borders and "running dog" or "water" motif outer
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