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Quba Ağgül Gollu Çiçi xalçası /  Kuba Gollu Chichi rug
CODE: KUGC08

Size (metric): 105x168cm
Size (ft): 3'5"x5'6"
Area: 1.76 m2
Density: 160 000 knots per square meter, totally ~280 000 knots
Weaving period: two and half months

Colors (10): madder red, medium blue, dark medium blue, variegated light lawn green, midnight blue, soft yellow, maroon, forest green, natural ivory, natural brown.
Dyes: 100% natural dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, dyer's woad, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, natural brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool - all are eco-friendly and non-toxic
Materials: Handcarded and handspun wool for pile, wool warps (natural ivory and brown twist) and cotton wefts

Handwoven in Azerbaijan, dated 1436 (2015)
Weaver's name: Khayalah

Design: The ivory field with three radiating angular floral medallions surrounded by small floral and hooked motifs. The red ground ivory kufic border (called Shami in Azerbaijan) is in-between the "running water" and flowerhead minor borders, outer reciprocal skittle-pattern (arrow head motif "mollabashi") and barber-pole stripes


A carpet with a pseudo-kufic border is depicted in this 15th century manuscript of Aq-qoyunlu (White Sheep Turkomans) ruler Yaqub Bey


A rug with the Kufic motif  border depicted in "Virgin and Child", by Michel Sittow, c. 1515. Staatliche Museen, Berlin


an illusturation showing the connection of the so called "apple-flower" motif of the Gollu Chichi to the small pattern "Holbein" medallion in this XV century Turkish rug from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
 

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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.