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Guides to the Caucasian Rug

Notes on Afshan Carpets a sub-group of Shirvan Rugs

Guide to Akstafa Rugs primarily Azeri rugs from near the Kazak area closely related to Shirvan Rugs.

Notes on Alpan rugs a sub-group of Shirvan Rugs

Guide to Baku Rugs a seperate group but close to the Shirvan Rugs group

Guide to Bordjalou rugs related to Kazak Rugs

Guide to Karachopf Gardabani Rugs a sub-group of Bordjalou rugs

A Guide To Pin-wheel Kazak a sub-group of Bordjalou rugs

Guide to Caucasian Flatweaves

Guide to Dagestan Rugs

Guide To Dragon Carpets

Guide to Fachralo Kazak Rugs a sub-group of Kazak Rugs

Guide To Gendge Rugs

Guide to Zakatala rugs

Guide to Georgian Pardaghys

Guide To Karabagh Rugs

Guide To Chelaberd Kazak Rugs a sub-group of Kazak Rugs

Guide to Karachopf Gardabani Rugs

Guide to Kazak Rugs

Guide to Akstafa Rugs

Guide To Kuba Rugs

• Notes on Alpan rugs

• Guide to Seychour Rugs

Guide To Marasali Rugs

Guide to Shahsevan

Guide To Shirvan Rugs

Talish Rugs the O'Connell Guide

Other Rug Notes

Classical Floral Carpets

• Bursa Mosque Floral Carpet

• The Keshishian Karabagh Floral Carpet Fragment

• The Wher Collection Floral Carpet

Dragon Carpets

• Christopher Alexander Caucasian Dragon Carpet

• The Eiland Dragon Carpet

• Prototypical Dragon Rug

• Thompson Caucasian Dragon Carpet Fragment Lot 77

• Thompson Caucasian Dragon Carpet Fragment Lot 78

• Caucasian Image 7

• Tuduc Dragon Carpet

• Dragon Rug Dyes

Lori Pambak

• Guide to Lori Pambak Kazaks

• Lori or Lori Pambak is a mountainous region of Armenia that borders upon Georgia. It has a population of 400,000 and is 97% Armenian. Lori - the third biggest region in Armenia.

  • Lori Pambak Kazak Rug

  • Lori Pambak Rug

  • Lori Pambak Rug

  • Lori Pambak Kazak circa 1890

  • The Galerie Bieler Lori Pambak Rug

Shirvan

• Guide To Shirvan Rugs

• Shirvan Kelim Azeri Type

• Unusual white ground star pattern Shirvan Kelim Azeri Type

• Azeri Verneh

Miscellaneous Caucasian Rugs

Afshan

• Notes on Afshan Carpets

Akstafa

• Guide to Akstafa Rugs

Alpan

• Notes on Alpan rugs

Armenian

• Armenian Embroidery

• Inscribed 1903 Armenian Carpet

• Armenian Erivan Rug

• Armenian Erivan Rug c. 1910-20

• Early 20th c. Armenian Erivan Rug T-meander  border

• Armenian Erivan Rug Early 20th c.

• Armenian Erivan Rug Karagashli Derivative

• An unusual Derbend long rug Armenian and Turkish Inscriptions.

• Erivan Rug Circa 1930

• Armenian rug, Karabakh or Erivan

• Inscribed Dated Armenian Kazak Idjevan?

• Head and Sholders Kazak

• Van-Ham Eriwan. Um 1900.

Rug factory in Erivan 1917 - 1918

© Armenian National Institute, Inc. Elder Photo Collection.
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/photo-elder/

Baku:

• Guide to Baku Rugs

Balch Institute-Armenian Rugs-Preserving a Heritage

Guide To Gendge Rugs

The Cocoon Caucasian Kuba Rug

Daghestan

• Caucasian Rugs: Guide to Dagestan Rugs

Derbend

• Caucasian Rugs: Guide to Dagestan Rugs and Derbend Rugs

• Derbend rug about 1920-30,

• Derbent Carpet 1st half 19th century

• "Daghestan, Derbend and Lesghistan," Stone, P.: Oriental Rug Review, IV/338- 341

• http://www.khazaria.com/mountainjews.html

• Rippon Boswell A Derbent Carpet

Flatweaves

• Guide to Caucasian Flatweaves

1959 Caucasian Rug

Harshang

Notes on Harshang Rugs a sub-group of Shirvan Rugs

Kaitag

• A probably 18th c. Kaitag embroidery

• A Kaitag silk embroidery, lot 46

Karachopf Kazak Rugs

Karagashli

• Notes on Karagashli Rugs

Konagkend Kuba Lattice Rug

Antique Kurmanji Kurd Kazak - Karabakh.

Lampa Karabakh

• 'Notes on Lampa-Karabakh' design a sub group within the Karabagh Rugs Group

Lenkoran

• Circa 1920 So-called Lenkoran long rug

• The James K. Marechal Lenkoran Long Rug

• A Lenkoran rug last quarter 19th ct

• The Rippon Boswell Lenkoran Rug

Lezgi

• The Lezgi live in Northern Caucasus and in Russia. They are prominent weavers as are the Quba a sub-group of the Lezgi.

  I never realized how many Lezgi were in Azerbaijan until a known terrorist slipped me a video tape of Armenian soldiers stripping the bodies of the Azeri soldiers that they had killed in an ambush. A significant percentage of the Azeri soldiers carried identity papers identifying them as ethnically Lezgian. This of course indicated a significant Lezgi population in Azerbaijan.

  "The Lezghians were also good carpet makers. Sumakhi—rugs without pile, which have a smooth upper side and a shaggy underside, were made in the Kusary district. The Lezghians copied traditional Azerbaijan decorative subjects—either plants or geometrical motifs—when making their carpets.¹⁹"

  19 _{O. Efendiev, Khoziastvo i material’naia kultura lezgin Azerbaidzhana v kontse XIX — nachale XX vv., Candidate’s Dissertation, Leningrad, 1987, p. 9.} http://www.ca-c.org/journal/eng01_2000/05.mammedov.shtml

Lezghi rugs a two level foundation similar to Daghestan rugs, very firm, Hubel, Reinhard G. The Book of Carpets

• Lesghi

  • Antique Lesghi "Lesghi Star" Fragment a comparison with Plate 132 in Ulrich Schurmann's Caucasian Rugs

  • Antique Lesghi Star Rug

  • The Manning Lesghi Star Shirvan rugs

  • Daghestan Lesghi Blossom Kelim

  • Daghestan Kelim Lesghi Type

  • Late 19th C. Lesghi Kuba Sumac

  • A Leshgi Konakend Sumac

  • Christie's Antique Lesghi rug Lot 43

Lesghi Rugs

Arta Stal Lesghi

• The Doris Leslie Blau Arta Stal Daghestan Lezghi Rug

• Two Arta Stal Lezghi Rugs?

• Karagashli Kuba Rug? _ Lesghi

• Blue Karagashli Kuba Rug? - Lesghi

Not Lesghi

• Lesghi Star Kazak Rug from Belgium

• A Shirvan Lesghier Sternen rug

• A good example of a rug made in the Lesghi style by other weavers is The Harold and Melissa Keshishian Shirvan Lesghi Star Rug, The Treasure of The Caucasus: Rugs from American Collections plate 23. and the Karabagh Lesghi Star plate 20.

Possibly

• Antique Caucasian Lesghi Star

• A Lesghi rug, lot 42

• Lesghi Rug Circa 1900 - Kuba

Marasali Rugs

• Notes on Marasali Rugs

Moghan Moghan Shahsevan Long rug A Moghan long rug Antique Moghan Rug Maison Sadraee 19th C. Moghan long rug Antique Shirvan Memling Gul Long Rug - Moghan? A Moghan Kazak long rug lot 81 A Moghan Kazak rug lot 67 Antique Shirvan Runner? - Moghan Christie's Antique Moghan long rug Lot 241 A Kazak long rug, circa 1890 lot 31 Moghan A Moghan Kazak long rug lot 81

Notes on Perepedil

Saliani

• Saliani Long Rug Circa 1900

• Talesh Saliani long rug

Seichur

• Guide to Seychour Rugs

Sewan Kazak Rugs

Shusha

• Shusha was an ancient village in Karabakh that gained in importance when Panah Ali-khan Javanshir built a nearby fortress. From there he established himself as a Khan of an independent Khanate. Shusha was able to beat back the Persians in 1795 (VAR: SHUSHA -- City of Shusha, Karabakh region of Azerbaijan) but not many years later (1805) the Khanate fell to the Czarist Russians. http://scf.usc.edu/~baguirov/azeri.htm

  • Shusha Carpet

  • Dragon Rug Dyes

  • Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, review by Murray Eiland

  • The Rugs at Glencairn by George W. O'Bannon

South Caucasian

• Christie's South Caucasian rug Last Quarter 19th C. Lot 241

Soviet Period

• Caucasian Rug circa 1950

Surakhani

• A town 13 m. east of Baku.

Tabassaran

• Guide to Seychour Rugs

Talish

• The Talish live along the Caspian coast south of the Viliazh-Chai River". The Talish are Shia Muslim. Ethnologue: Azerbaijan - Talish. The Talish are on both sides of the Azerbaijan Iran border. The Talish were a major Kizilbash tribal confederation.

  "Talyshe. This ethnic group abodes in southeast Azerbaijan, specifically in the Lenkoran, Astara and, in part, in the Masally and Lerik districts. According to the 1989 census, there were more than 21,000 Talyshe in Azerbaijan.

  In the past, the Talyshe living in the valleys were mainly rice growers and the highlanders were herdsmen. The Talyshe have become deeply integrated with the Azerbaijani ethnic group. The traditions and everyday lives of the Talyshe differ little from those of the Azerbaijanis. Many of the Talyshe are bilingual, speaking both Talyshe and Azerbaijani. But although Azerbaijani is widespread,"

  • The Alberto Levi Talish Rug

  • The Alberto Levi Talish Rug Circa 1860

  • Talish Rug

  • Talish Rug

  • Talish Rug

  • Notes on the Gordon Talish Met Hane

  • Last quarter 19th century Talish Rug

  • Talesh Saliani long rug

  • Karabakh-Talish Rug

  • Last quarter 19th century Talish Rug

  • Talish met hane (plain field) rug

  • A long rug, TALISH-/KUBA-AREA, third quarter 19th ct.

  • A 19th c. Talish village carpet

  • A Lenkoran Rug Talish Region

  • Talish (Azerbaijan)

  • Lankaran (Azerbaijan. The Land of Arts)

  • Batillossi 58

  • Antique Textile Art

  • Lankaran (Azerbaijan. The Land of Arts)

  • Talish Armenian Studies Program.

Verneh Horse Cover

Yukhari-Zeykhur

• Guide to Seychour Rugs

Zakatala

• Guide to Zakatala rugs

Zejwa/Zeywa

• Sunburst Zejwa Rug

• The Alberto Levi Zejwa Rug

• Rippon-Boswell Zeywa Carpet 1895 A.D. lot 19

Odds & Ends that I want to remember:

Chajli S border

Lesghi bar border

Carnation border common among Azeri weavers

Eiland & Eiland's Oriental Rugs A Complete Guide

Bennett, Ian et al. Oriental Rugs Volume 1 Caucasian.

Der Manuelian, L. and M. Eiland: Weavers, Merchants and Kings, Inscribed Rugs from Armenia

Hubel, Reinhard G. The Book of Carpets

Kaffel, Ralph. Caucasian Prayer Rugs

Keshishian, James Mark. Inscribed Armenian Rugs of Yesteryear.

Ulrich Schurmann Caucasian Rugs.

Stone, P.F. Rugs of the Caucasus: Structure and Design.

Stone, P.F. Oriental Rug Lexicon. 1997, The lexicon has square foot measurements and knot counts for all the major types of Caucasian rugs

Tschebull, Raoul. Kazak.

Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers

Older Caucasian Rugs

Ellis, Charles Grant. Early Caucasian Rugs. Washington DC: The Textile Museum, 1975.

Yetkin, Serare. Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey

Caucasian Bags

Hegenbart, Heinz and Adil Besim: Rare Oriental Woven Bags. Munich: 1982.

Wertime, J. SUMAK BAGS OF NORTHWEST PERSIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA. 1998,

Articles that you may be interested in:

Oriental Rugs: Practical Seminar on Caucasian Rugs by James M. Keshishian

Keshishian Collection of Caucasian Rugs at the TM

Chelabird Medallion Evolution 1592 - 1912

Dragon Rug Dyes

The Azerbaijan Carpet

Review Caucasian Carpets and Covers

Notes on Serif Ozen of Cocoon

Colored Interstice Border

• Kazak Rugs: A "Tree" Kazak Rug late 19th C.

• Kazak Rugs: Inscribed Dated Armenian Kazak

• Kazak Rugs: Kazak Three Medallion Rug dated 1871 - 72

• Kazak Rugs: Kazak Prayer Rug Rippon Boswell

• Kazak Rugs: Late 19th century Karachov Kazak

• Lori Pambak Rug

• Kazak Rugs: Unusual Lori Pambak Kazak

• Kazak Rugs: Eder pl. 24 Fachralo Prayer rug

For Further Reading:

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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