Map of
the Hamadan Rug Producing Region
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 Hamadan Rugs: Antique
Tuisarkhan Hamadan Village Rug C. 1900
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The Hamadan
Rugs: Lavian Shahsavan Mafrash Panel 19th C.
(Zanjan area)
Villa
Hamadan Rugs: Del Prado - Orientalrugs II -
Lilihan
The Hamadan Weave |
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| Single weft is called "Sennah
Baft" or Hamadan
weave. Here the wefts
are rigid and the warps
are sinuous. As you can see in the sketch the wefts
are heavier than the warps.
It is woven with symmetrical knots. Since there
is only one shot of weft between each row of
knots this shows every other warp which
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Articles and Links:
- Jozan.net Hamadan Rugs
- "A Qulyahi carpet,
Songur, west of Hamadan, wool on cotton,
late 19th century, size 582x359 cm"
- Hamadan- IRAN - Ecbatana
- Persian Capital
- The Mausoleum of Esther
and Mordecai in Hamadan, Iran
- About Hamadan
City...Bu-Ali Sina University
- ONE WOMAN ONE WEFT , The village rugs of
Hamadan,
by Tad Runge, 152 pages, 75 color plates,
76 color details, 10 b& w
photographs, and a comprehensive
technical analysis section by Holly
Smith. Hardbound. ISBN # 0-615-12038-5.
- Welcome A.E. Runge Jr.
Oriental Rugs
- Hamadan Province
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- Village in Hamadan south of Malayir.
Primarily blue ground fairly coarse rugs
in dozar and zaronim sizes.
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In P. R. J.
Ford's book Oriental
Carpet Design Ford
mentioned that the Borchalu were Mongol. That peaked my
curiosity. If they are Mongol
than I should be able to identify them since Mongols are well
documented. Here is what I found:
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.
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- Borujerdi south of Hamadan in the
northern area of Lurestan. The area is
populated heavily by Luri.
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- Also Hussainabad. Huseinabad is south of
the city of Hamadan close to Malayir.
Almost out of the Hamadan region.
- Huseinabad Rug Circa
1995
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- The city of Sonqur is a collection point
for Kolyai Kurdish rugs<
- The Kolyai are Sorani Kurd of the
Southern Kurd group and are related to
the Bijari (Garrusi) and the Arbili,
Adaiani (Sanandaji), Khushnaw, Sulaymani,
Pizhdar, Mukri, Warmawa, Garmiyani,
Garrusi (Bijari), Kolya'i, Zangana,
Kirmanshahi. The
Kurdish People: an Analysis by language,
geography, religion and ethnicity
Koliai
Rugs: New Kolyai Kurdish Rug
Koliai
Rugs: Kolyai Kurdish Rug C. 1995
Koliai
Rugs: Kolyai Kurd Hamadan Rug C. 1995
Koliai
Rugs: Songur-Kolyai Kurdish Runner C.
1900 - 20 W&W
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Rudbar is located east of Hamadan
and west of the holy city of Qum, near Tafrish.
It is often thought to be near the Caspian sea
but that is Rudbarak which produces a very
different type of rug. The wool and sometimes the
rugs themselves are attributed to the Saveh Shah
Savan. Rudbar produces a variety of different
size rugs including very good long runners. The
rugs are made with single weft construction and
wear well due to sturdy construction and a
moderately high knot count (75 - 100 KPSI) using
very good wool.
- Shirishabad or Sirisabad is just north of Qorve
which is on the main road halfway between
Sanandag (sennah) and Hamadan.
- Shirishabad is actually in Kurdistan. However the
rug is considered in the Hamadan group
today on the basis of construction. Still the
weave is called "Sennah
Baft" because it was traditional to the
Sanandag (sennah) area.
- The J.P. Willborg
Shirishabad Rug
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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