'Akstafa' Bird rug in a yellow ground with silk highlights


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Yellow 'Akstafa' Salyan rug with silk highlights (mid 19th century design)

CODE: SHRAKS24A

Size (metric): 128x170cm

Size (ft): 4'2"x5'7"

Area: 2.17 m²
Density: 165 000 knots per square meter, totally ~360 000 knots

Weaving period: four months

Colors: yellow, red, apricot, maroon, old purple, cerulean blue, dark blue, aqua green, lawn green, olive, ivory, hazelnut, dark brown, medium brown, cinnamon, dark brown

Dyes: madder, onion skins, cochineal, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, natural brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool, natural medium brown sheep wool, maroon.

Materials: Handcarded and handspun wool for pile, ivory wool warps and ivory wefts (two shots), pure silk

Weavers: Nazila, Feride

Inscriptions: the word "Banu" (princess) with ancient Orkhon Yenisei scripts, as well as the weaving date (in lunar calendar) and a tamga (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe

Knots: Gördes (Turkish, symmetrical)

Pile height: 0.5cm

Design: Inspired by a rare 1850s antique Salyan Akstafa rug design. Click here to read the story

Peacocks, camels, small houses with cross; swastika motifs; various archaic elements; babies, women, men - all in their traditional dress, a soldier or a king with his sword, combs, domestic animals, goats, deers, wheels, crosses, weaving combs, tree of life symbols, fertility motif, birds, colorful rams horn border etc.

Peacock motif

A family in their traditional clothes

Dyeing with cochineal

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.