Стр. 51 - Azərbaycan xalçaları

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In addition, there are products with finer designs
and subjects. Due to their geographic position
close to southern Azerbaijan, the people living
in Zangibasar and Sardarabad provinces visited
the cities of Tabriz, Khoy, and Maku. The traces
of southern Azerbaijani culture were transferred
to the carpets through the fingers of the craftsmen
who had strong memories of this culture. One of
the characteristics of the Tabriz carpet school is to
have a closed compositional structure; motifs in-
clude rhombuses, squares, stars or full roses, and
one-quarter sized flower elements (petals, ketebe,
or gubbe ) repeated on both sides. Plant elements
were characteristic for carpets woven here also,
and they represented Mother Nature. Feelings
were also reflected on the carpets; for example, faith in the world, the search for
eternity, or worshiping divine forces. The portrayal of roses, irises, violets, and
other flowers on the carpets displayed the aesthetic tastes and beliefs of those
who wove those rugs. Significantly, the dates were shown in the Hijri calendar
(Muslim calendar) on Zangibasar and Sardarabad carpets, just as on most Ira-
van carpets. Zili, jejim, soumakh, chul, chanta (bag),
and kharal were woven in this area, employing
themes and geometric, plantlike, or zoomorphic
elements. The carpets of Zangibasar and Sard-
arabad featured rhombuses, emblems, s-shaped
long images and geometric motifs. These motifs
are encountered on Shirvan carpets as well.