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Azerbaijani carpets / TABRIZ GROUP
This carpet called Hadji Jalili with a rich artistic composition mainly consists of a middle field and a border. The carpet
was woven in the world-famous Hadji Jalili workshop. On the left side of the light brown background middle field, a dark
night, moon, and stars are depicted. A little below inside a rail, various trees appear and further below, a running river with
flowers around it are depicted.
Down the river, there is a meadow with four female figures. The “bulud” (cloud) images around the women’s clothes can
be seen clearly. The “bulud” motifs are designed in black.
The “bulud” motifs are described in various forms in Azerbaijani decorative applied-art, including carpet weaving. These
elements are used in snake-shaped or dragon–shaped forms. In the Middle Ages, these decorative elements were inter-
preted as a symbol of water. From the eleventh century, the “bulud” and other elements used in “Chinese-Virgin” fine art,
especially the decorative elements used in miniatures and ceramics, entered Azerbaijani folk art. These motifs are associ-
ated with religious ceremonies in people’s lives related to local conditions and world outlook. The water elements, like fish
and duck, which were important for human life in the Near East and in Azerbaijan, are depicted in s-shaped or in wavy
forms and point toward the “bulud” elements. The gaps of the middle field are filled with trees full of red, dark blue, white,
orange, and yellow flowers and other vegetal elements.
On the top of the middle field, Parvin and Parviz’s palace is depicted.
On the lower part of the right side of
the middle field, there are three ketebes
(writings): “Parvin and Behzad visit
Parviz
“Parvin sitting on the Sassanid king’s
golden throne”
“Parvin appearing beforParviz.”
In the middle upper section, the fol-
lowing ketebe appear: “Parviz goes to
Parvin’s house with virgin maids.
“This expression says.” In the first ketebe on the right with a
dark brown background, the follow-
ing appears: “Parvin and Parviz came
together behind the screen.”
In the second ketebe on the right is writ-
ten: “Parvin remembered her father and
mother.”
In the first dark blue ketebe on the
left is written: "Parviz and Behzad
arrived with a troop."
In the first square-like ketebe on
the right, the following appears:
“My sorrow is as mournful as
your hair.”