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Perepedil Kuba rug CODE: KUPER36 Size: 152x209cm Size (ft): 4'11"x6'10" Area: 3.17 m2 Density: 160 000 knots per square meter, totally ~over 500 000 knots Colors: madder red, aubergine, midnight blue, yelow, cerulean blue, light blue, medium green, light green, dark green, aubergine, ivory, dark brown, orange brown. Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, onion skins, natural brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool Materials: Handcarded and handspun wool for pile, ivory wool warps (natural ivory and brown twist) 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: bundled knots Inscriptions: 1438 (=2017 weaving date in lunar calendar), Pirabadil (name of the village), tamga (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe Weaver: Gulnara Weaving Period: Four 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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The inscriptions show the words "Pirabadil" and the tamga of the Afshar tribe

Weaving date in lunar calendar: 1438 (2017)

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.