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I am now convinced that Bordjalu should be and can be divided by it's three historic provinces, Marneuli, Gardabani and Bolnisi. I will soon get around to revising this page. In the mean time enjoy the rugs and you can follow my new line of reasoning in The Daniels Collection Bordjalu Rugs
What is Borchali? BRIEF HISTORY: The Sultanate of Borchali was located in the southeastern part of Georgia and in the eastern part of today's Turkey. At the beginning of the 18th century, Borchali was vassal of the Khanate of Ganja and in 1736 was ceded by Persian Emperor Nadir Shah Afshar to the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti. Borchali was composed of today's Georgian districts of Marneuli, Gardabani and Bolnisi  There seems a clear dichotomy in the rugs attributed to the Bordjalu area. Bordjalu is a collection point in southern Georgia for the area that runs up the southern ridge of the Caucasus south of Tbilisi. This is the quintessential Type A. Since Borchalo was divided into three provinces; Marneuli, Gardabani and Bolnisi I suggest that we can construct a probable grouping by seeking to trifurcate the group. By taking the available rugs and dividing them into groups we end up with three logical groups. The easiest one is the Karayazy or Gardabani Group since there is a firm body of rugs and pictorial evidence to give us firm anchor rugs, So now we have two groups and two regions. Type A looks very close to examples that I feel have a high probability of being Armenian. Take for example Bennett, Ian et al. Oriental Rugs Volume 1 Caucasian. plate 69. The field is related to the Type A Bordjalu. The main border however is Armenian, Compare plate 69 to plate 140 a rug attributed to Erivan. Bolnisi is the southwestern most region of the Borchallo area. It historically has had the greatest concentration of Armenians. If we attribute the Type A Borchally rugs to Borchalo, Borchaly, Borcialu, Borchalo, Bor`calo
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Chobanker Bordjalu Kazaks This is a little used attribution but it appears to have some merit. In the Bordjalu group there is a distinctive sub-group. Hubel points out a blue-green color with clumsy reciprocal brown and white borders. i think they tend to be more square than standard Bordjalu Kazaks. Chobanker Type: |
 # 20. Textile Treasures, Exhibition catalogue by Peter Willborg "14 colors, warp Z3S, originally a pile height of 10 mm, now on an average of 6-7 mm" |
Chobanker?
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Sale 2136 Lot 70 Bordjalou Kazak, Southwest Caucasus, last quarter
19th century, (small rewoven areas along edges and other areas, brown
corrosion), 5 ft. 9 in. by 4 ft. 2 in. |
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Sale 2136 Lot 76 Karachopf Kazak Rug, Southwest Caucasus, second
half 19th century, (small rewoven areas, other small repairs, brown
corrosion, even wear to center), 7 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. 4 in. |
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Sale 2136 Lot 1 Bordjalou Kazak Prayer Rug, Southwest Caucasus, last quarter 19th
century, three hooked diamond medallions in navy blue, ivory, gold, and
light blue-green on the red field, ivory and dark brown reciprocal
trefoil border, (even wear to center, creases, brown corrosion), 4 ft.
2 in. by 3 ft. 5 in. My apology for the image, Skinner has small images but does have some interesting rugs |
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Adil Besim, Wien The Adil Besim Bordjalu Kasak, Ende 19. JH. 138 x 123 c m1010
Wien , Graben 30 The secondary and tertiary field medalions in this are related to field medalion in a rug from Karayazi Georgia in the Bordjalu region. Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers plate 33. |
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Karayazy Group
Karayazy became Gardabani in 1947. Plate 53 in Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers shows a Bordjalo Kazak with some characteristics of Akstafa rugs. A Karayazy Bordjalou Kazak rug Stefano Filippi Bordjalu Prayer Rug The Eitzenberger Bordjalou Kasak A Borjalou rug Kazak Region, late 19th c. Sotheby's Gardabani Kazak Rug lot 91 Sotheby's Bordjalu Kazak Tschebull's pl. 20 Sotheby's Gardabani Kazak rug lot 5 Sotheby's 2 diamond Gardabani Kazak Skinner's "star-in-cruciform" Kazak Rug Lot 64 Skinner's Bordjalou dbl. diamond Kazak Prayer Rug The Franz Bausback 4 Horse Gardabani Kazak rug Sadykhly and Boyuk in Azerbaijan and the villages of Nazarly, Voyovka and Jandar in the Gardabani region of Georgia. |
Irina
Koshoridze
Borchalo
Rugs
The historical fate of Georgia was significantly
determined by its geographical location. Georgia has been invaded by
many countries, which caused many hardships to the country, but
relations to vary civilizations and their cultures helped Georgia to
develop such cultural and life models in which religious and cultural
tolerance among different populations had a leading place. One of the
many examples would be Borchalo rugs, which have been created by the
Azeri population of Georgia, who settled in Georgia in the XVI century.
In these items one can see both their ancient homeland’s atmosphere and
stylistic features of centuries-old Georgian culture. http://www.icr.arti.beniculturali.it/Icom-TXT/15-16/ICOCAbstractsE--L.html
"Shirak and Karayaz, on the left bank of the Kura, which are chiefly inhabited by nomad Tatars." http://91.1911encyclopedia.org/T/TI/TIFLIS.htm
Antique Prayer Rug
Item #140
SOLD
3'-7" x 5'-4"
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Sale
2192 Lot 221
Bordjalou Kazak Rug, Southwest Caucasus, late 19th
century, four hooked diamonds inset with "checkerboard" design in navy
and sky blue, ivory, gold, and blue-green on the red field, two
reciprocal trefoil borders, one ivory and dark brown, one red and
blue-green, (even wear to center, small repairs), 6 ft. 7 in. by 4 ft.
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J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
Van-Ham Kasak-Bordjaln, Südwest-Kaukasus
Van-Ham Kasak-Bordjalu. Südwest Kaukasus d. 1912
In about 1179 a young man who would grow up to be Cinggis Qahan (Ghengis Khan) was aided by the son of the Chieftain of the Arulat clan. The young man was Bo'orcu. He became one of Cinggis Qahan's Dorben Kulu'ud (Great Warriors). In the Yuan ch'ao pi-shih, quatrain 205, it is recorded that later in life Cinggis Qahan said "Let Bo'orcu govern the ten thousand of the right hand which take the Altai as pillow." In other words the Qahan gave a proto-tribal unit to a key general. I am certainly no linguist but I translate Borchalu as Bo'orcu Lu or the people of Bo'orcu. The Lu of Bo'orculu as coming from the same root as the Mongol term Ulus which means the land, animals, and people, that a that an IL or tribal group controls. These people became known as the Bo'orculu or people of Bo'orcu. Over the years Bo'orculu becomes Borchalu. So if Ford is correct and I believe he is that the Borchalu are Mongol than they must be descended from the Horde of Bo'orcu.
