PROMISE FULFILLED
...the catalogue of The Textile Museum's landmark exhibit, "From the Bosporus to Samarkand, Flat-Woven Rugs," Charles Grant Ellis concluded that with each new showing of flat-woven rugs, our basic inform......able collector will find challenges in this exhibit. The once comfortable labels of Kuba and Shirvan are largely discarded. In their place are new names and places: Kumik and Tat; Lori and Tabasaran. Groups like the Armenians and Lesghis are reevaluated. In addition, the often garbled terminology fo... - http://www.rugreview.com/145kuba.htm 09-01-2005 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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ORIENTAL RUGS: PRACTICAL SEMINAR ON CAUCASIAN RUGS
 ... Oriental Rugs: Practical Seminar on Caucasian Rugs A Practical Seminar on Caucasian Rugs By James M. Keshishian A.S.A. Senior - Oriental Rugs Excerpts taken from "" We start with the Caucas......r pile is the result of knotting, is invariably wool. The finer the wool the finer the knot. Shirvan and Kuba are fine-knotted and low pile. Medium pile is from the Talish and Daghestan area. High-pile rugs are typically found in the Kazak, Karabagh, and Moghan regions. (See map.) 4. The selvedge an... - http://www.orientalcarpets.net/jkpnotes.htm 21-12-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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RUG RESOURCE LIBRARY - COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN - CAUCASIAN
... Antique Caucasian Antique Caucasian rugs were woven in the Caucusus. Approximately 95% were made in Azerbaijan, while Georgia and Armenia accounted for the rest. Before April of 1920 when Azerbaijan ......ng woven similarly to rugs woven in the early 1900's. The five main Caucasian rugs are Kuba, Shirvan, Kazak, Baku Cabistan and Karabaugh. There were many different qualities and designs made in these areas, which can make correctly identifying a Caucasian rug difficult. Some rugs from the area of Ku... - http://www.orientalrugsonline.com/caucasian.html 21-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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COLLECTING ACCORDING TO BURNS
...k, 7'x5', circa 1800 Burns, a full-time attorney and avid collector of Near Eastern and Far-Eastern rugs and textiles among other interests, holds the opinion that very few pieces produced in the Cauc......articular enthusiasm to Burns'dragon carpet, circa 1700 (Plate I), or the striking red-field Shirvan covered with palmettes and cloudbands, dated 1208, or 1793 A.D., (Plate 5). Of the 24 plates devoted to pre-1830 village and nomadic rugs, there are both familiar (but outstanding) and unusual weavin... - http://www.rugreview.com/81burn.htm 21-09-2004 - Category: Literature - More from this publisher
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GUIDE TO MARASALI RUGS
 ... Guide To Marasali Rugs Visit Caucasian Rugs and Carpets Antique Marasali Prayer Rug Marasali Rugs Marasali rugs are attributed to a village south of Shemaka in the Shirvan region of the Caucasus . Kaffel, Caucasian Prayer Rugs page 34. I now have some doubts about that and am wondering if Marasali is actually Masally. Masally is a regions of Azerbaijan bordering Lenkora... - http://www.spongobongo.com/0heq9963.htm 17-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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GUIDE TO AKSTAFA RUGS
 ... This Page Sponsored by Ed Krayer A Member of Our Trusted Dealers List Guide to Akstafa Rugs The Manoyan Akstafa Prayer Rug Southwest Caucasus circa 1880 92cm x 153cm Hagop Manoyan What is an Akstafa ......n the large town in the Kazak weaving district (near Lambalo and Shulaver) but rather on the Shirvan weaving area, probably on south Shirvan. The magnificent colours of this rug also suggest a southern Shirvan attribution." So obviously when Jorge Oliveira, Ian Bennett , Murray Eiland and Harol... - http://www.spongobongo.com/0her9841.htm 17-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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GUIDE TO KUBA RUGS
 ... This Page Sponsored by Ed Krayer A Member of Our Trusted Dealers List Guide To Kuba Rugs Kuba also Quebah, Cuba, Guba etc.... Kuba was a Khanate of Persia (a Khanate is equivalent to a state or regio.......jp/Russia/bibl/Tat.html Khirdagyd-Chichi Kuba rug 1890's Chichi Rug Ordutch Konagkend style Shirvan with Chichi border Kuba Chichi. late 19th century A Kuba gallery carpet, A Caucasian Medalion Carpet, 18th/19th C. - Kuba A rare Kuba rug w/ floral outline borders Afshan Pattern Afshan Kuba or Shirv... - http://www.spongobongo.com/cauc3.htm 17-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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GUIDE TO DRAGON CARPETS
 ... 19th century there exact origin is a subject of some dispute. Gennerally attributed to Karabagh or Shirvan they were at one point attributed to Kuba . The Kuba attribution is muddied a bit. In Early Caucasian Rugs Charles Grant Ellis quotes the Encyclopedia of Islam that Kuba "did not exist until C, 1750. Early Caucasian Rugs page 10. I have heard the same from John Wertime discounting Kuba because it was ... - http://www.spongobongo.com/cauc6.htm 17-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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ORIENTAL RUGS: PRACTICAL SEMINAR ON CAUCASIAN RUGS
 ... A Practical Seminar on Caucasian Rugs By James M. Keshishian A.S.A. Senior - Oriental Rugs We start with the Caucasus. This area is located between the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and lakes Van and Ur......r pile is the result of knotting, is invariably wool. The finer the wool the finer the knot. Shirvan and Kuba are fine-knotted and low pile. Medium pile is from the Talish and Daghestan area. High-pile rugs are typically found in the Kazak, Karabagh, and Moghan regions. (See map.) 4. The selvedge an... - http://www.spongobongo.com/jkprac1.htm 17-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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GUIDE TO BAKU RUGS
 ... Guide to Baku Rugs Surahani Fire Temple Baku floats on a huge reserve of oil. Zoroastrians have used oil in their worship and there were fire temples. Surahan has long been a center of the fire worsh......rnold, MP for Salford, Through Persia by Karavan, 1875. The Fire-temple at Baku The Oliveira Shirvan Surahani ‘Garden' Rug Islam and carpets Despite the historical sites related to fire worship Baku has been overwhelmingly Moslem for over 1000 years. Carpet was not just an export item. Due to o... - http://www.spongobongo.com/ns/ns9990.htm 17-09-2004 - Category: Caucasian - More from this publisher
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