The strongest market for caucasian rugs has to be italy who appreciates these rugs for their tribal and primitive designs.
Caucasian carpet motifs.
Several carpet styles from contemporary northwestern iran also.
Very good with quality pile all over and some small oxidized brown areas.
Made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces the rugs of the caucasus normally display bold geometric designs in primary colours.
Another reason why the italian market is so strong is the fact that most of the rooms as considerably smaller than those in the usa since the.
Caucasian rugs are primarily produced as village productions rather than city pieces.
Pictured below is a cloud band in a chonderesk carpet.
Cloud bands like flowers are usually curvilinear in persian and indian carpets while they are geometricized in caucasian rugs.
45 v x 39 h 1 755 dm2 condition.
Soft wool cotton weft wool warp and natural dyes are featured.
Caucasian rugs are probably the most widely collected type of antique rugs.
These age old symbols were considered sacred.
Fence of security the innermost and outermost borders of antique caucasian rugs often feature a reciprocal crenellated fence motif.
Cloud bands are one of my favorite types of motifs found in rugs specifically caucasian carpets.
Oliveira antique caucasian shirvan rug.
Styles typical to the caucasus region are daghestan shirvan gendje rugs kazakh and quba rugs.
Rugs and carpets period.
Below is an amulet motif seen in a caucasian kazak prayer rug.
If you read my first tentative post about carpet motifs you may remember that i promised a follow up dedicated exclusively to border motifs my attempt at compiling a comprehensive glossary of border motifs however very quickly ran into a wall.
After some searching i discovered that the carpet motif that had revealed my lack of erudition represented neither a cockroach nor a dragon but the scarab beetle a common motif in caucasian and persian tribal rugs especially qashqai rugs.
There are countless border motifs out there in that jungle that is the world of oriental carpets and many of them have multiple interpretations and.