Стр. 76 - Azərbaycan xalçaları

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Carpet. Wool. Pile-weave. Iravan group. Goyche, Basarkechar, western Azerbaijan. 300x136. 1232 AH/1811 CE.
The date 1232 AH appears at the top of the carpet’s middle field (a little above the center), at the right bottom of a blue medallion.
At the end of the sixteenth century, Tabriz artists developed a new “Shahabbasi” carpet composition. This composition was
spread through Iran’s carpet weaving centers in the seventeenth century. These patterns were initially designed using curved
lines, but became part of carpet art due to the development of decorative ornamentation in the sixteenth century. Later, this
composition, called “Goja” by professional Karabakh weavers, was designed using incomplete lines in accordance with local
technology.
The “Goja” carpet was woven in Barda in the seventeenth century and reached the height of its development in Shusha in the
eighteenth century. This type of carpet, which was woven by special request in Shusha, was different from carpets woven in other
districts due to its complex pattern designs. Carpets using this composition, woven since the nineteenth century, were wide-
spread in Shusha and Agdam.