Стр. 67 - Azərbaycan xalçaları

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Carpets woven in Iravan are very
close to Gazakh carpets from the stand-
point of their artistic structure. Carpet
weavers call this carpet “Gazakh.” At
the bottom of the carpet’s middle field
in the right corner, the Islamic date 1201
AH appears.
The main decoration of the middle
field of the carpet consists of nine hex-
agonal medallions placed on a red
background. In the first row from the
top, the medallions have one light green
and two blue backgrounds, in the sec-
ond row there is one light and two dark
brown backgrounds, and in the third
row there are light blue, dark green,
and navy blue backgrounds.
On the medallions, square elements
are positioned vertically and motifs
resembling stylized human figures are
found at the top and bottom corners
and to the right and left of the center.
The gaps of the middle field are filled
with hexagonal medallions, rhombic el-
ements, and four-petal flowers. Inside
the medallions, there are arrow-like
motifs pointing in all directions. On the
right and left, the large border of the
carpet is decorated with motifs resem-
bling arrows. These motifs are red, yel-
low, navy blue, blue, and brown. Tree-
like motifs decorate the wide borders at
the top and bottom.
The wide border is surrounded on
both sides by narrow borders decorated
with zigzags. The zigzags are designed
in light brown, cornelian, yellow, blue,
dark and light green, and white. The
internal border is encircled with white
su (water) and filled with brown and
white sichandishi (mouse teeth).
The outside border is complemented
by dark brown and yellow su on the
outside and cornelian su inside.
The ebresh (dapple-grey) clearly at-
tracts attention at the bottom of the mid-
dle field of the carpet.