{"id":8961,"date":"2021-08-15T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:57:46","slug":"%d1%81arpet-weaving-in-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/%d1%81arpet-weaving-in-karabakh\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0421arpet weaving in Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently, some of the Karabakh carpets are kept in various museums of the world. A Karabakh silk carpet (zili) of the XVI-XVII centuries is kept in Berlin in the Museum of Arts. The 18th-century Shusha carpet is presently kept in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In the American Textile History Museum you can find a carpet, which is called “Afshan”, woven in Shusha in the XVIII century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York possesses the Karabakh carpet of the “Verni” group. The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum in Baku has a unique collection of carpets from Shusha and Karabakh. Most of the collection was originally kept in the Shusha Carpet Museum. In 1992, prior to the occupation of the city by the Armenian military forces, 600 carpets were transported from the city by the director of the Shusha Museum. <\/strong>Qarabag.com<\/a> has prepared a material on the history of carpet weaving development in Karabakh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Carpet weaving is one of the ancient and traditional practices of the Azerbaijani people and has been historically developed on the territory of the former Karabakh Khanate.<\/p>\n

In the late 19th century and early 20th century Karabakh carpets were exported to various Western European countries, mainly to England. These carpets were also sold in Tabriz and Istanbul.[Transcaucasia. Soviet republics: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia, Adjaristan, South Ossetia, Nag.\u00a0 Karabakh, Nakhichevan.\u00a0 Statistical and economic collection. Publication of the Supreme Economic Council Of T. S.\u00a0 F. S. R., 1925, page 378].<\/span><\/a>
\n[Karimov L.\u00a0 G.\u00a0 Azerbaijan carpet.\u00a0 Volume II, Baku, Ganjlik, 1983, page 48].<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The region of Karabakh carpet weaving was located within Shusha, Jabrayil and Zangezur districts (the present Lowland and Nagorno (Mountainous)- Karabakh). This is due to the proximity of Karabakh to the Persian borders. The character and style of many drawings, the method of weaving and the height of the pile of the Karabakh carpets were similar to the Persian ones, but the Karabakh carpets, unlike the Persian ones, were woven from wool rather than paper.
\n[Caucasian calendar for 1901, Tiflis, 1900, p. 63; 64].<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

By the end of XIX, the Karabakh carpet-making region produced the largest carpets by size. In technical terms, the Karabakh carpets were of high quality, but the artistic merit of the drawings remained far behind due to the use of fading aniline paints common in this region after the 70s of the XIX century.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city of Shusha was the center of Karabakh carpet production and distribution. Shusha was considered to be the place of the best carpet weaving masters with a great artistic taste who were more familiar with the requirements of foreign markets than the artisans of other regions.
\n[Transcaucasia. Soviet republics: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia, Adjaristan, South Ossetia, Nag.\u00a0 Karabakh, Nakhichevan.\u00a0 Statistical and economic collection. Publication of the Supreme Economic Council Of T. S.\u00a0 F. S. R., 1925, page 378].<\/span><\/a>
\n[Karimov L.\u00a0 G.\u00a0 Azerbaijan carpet.\u00a0 Volume II, Baku, Ganjlik, 1983, p. 48].<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In 1872, at the Technical Exhibition in Moscow, on the basis of expert reports and the conclusions of the Council of theThe Imperial Society of Devotees of Natural Science at Moscow University, the following representatives of the Karabakh region won prizes for good carpets:<\/p>\n