Стр. 119 - Azərbaycan xalçaları

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The date 1273 AH appears in the right-
hand corner at the bottom of the carpet’s
middle field.
The main decoration of the middle field
of this red background carpet consists of
two light green and one light blue large
tree images. Yellow and white buds deco-
rate the branches of the trees.
Trees are designed differently in the dec-
orative-applied art of Azerbaijan. Spring
and fall trees are designed with blossoms
or crops. In most cases, cypress, willows,
or weeping willows are depicted as deco-
rative trees. In ancient times, in the Near
East, Central Asia, and in Azerbaijan olive
trees, cypress, mulberry trees, fig trees,
and grape vines were considered holy
trees. Trees with crooked branches were
believed to be especially holy. In decora-
tive-applied art, weeping willows were
considered a symbol of love, oaks were
symbols of power, and pomegranate trees
symbolized luck and family growth. Azer-
baijan’s artists, particularly carpet masters,
depicted these images in stylized forms.
All these images held symbolic meanings
on carpets. In most cases, there are one or
two large tree images in the middle field,
although in some cases more tree images
are seen.
At the bottom end of the carpet, beneath
the green tree, there are yellow motifs
with their edges decorated using brown su
(water). The same motif is repeated in the
brown and yellow motifs in the center. The
empty parts of the middle field are filled
with s-shaped, buynuz (horn), and chichak
(flower) motifs. Rectangular elements are
depicted in the empty spaces between the
trees. Inside these elements, small red, blue,
yellow, light blue, green, and brown classic
elements are depicted on the white back-
ground along the edges of light blue and
yellow triangular elements at the top and
navy blue and yellow triangular elements
at the bottom. There are yellow, navy blue,
light blue, red, and green stepped elements
on the wide border of the carpet. These el-
ements are separated from each other by
white su. The wide border is encircled by
narrow light blue stripes on the outside
and narrow navy blue stripes on the in-
side. Yellow, red, orange, white, light blue,
and blue four-petal flowers, motifs with
stepped edges, and rhombic elements are
patterned inside the narrow stripes. White
and red incomplete lines surround the out-
er edges of the stripe, while the edges of
the inner stripe are surrounded by yellow
and red on the outside and white and red
incomplete lines on the inside. The weaver
professionally designed the color palette
of the carpet. The colors of the ornamental
motifs of the middle field and the middle
stripe of the carpet are in bright contrast.
The carpet’s harmonic color range and
decorative composition complement each
other, generating a cheerful mood. The ar-
tistic union among the colors of the motifs
and the shimmer of the piles are clearly
visible.