Kazak Rugs

Guide To Caucasian Prayer Rugs: "Caucasian Prayer Rugs
Of all rugs Caucasian Prayer Rugs are some of the most popular. Here I mean to gather together my notes on them and in time flesh the notes out with more detail. If you want it all faster get a copy of Kaffel, Ralph. Caucasian Prayer Rugs. London, UK. Laurence King in Association with Hali, 1998

The Vance Jordan Kazak Prayer Rug
Kazak Prayer Rug White prayernish à la Markarian
Kazak Prayer Rugs
At the beginning of the 19th Century most of the land between Kazak and Erevan was part of the Erevan Khanate. This was the hereditary seat of the Qajar tribe. A massive shift occurred in a series of wars Russia moved through the Caucasus driving the Moslems south. These tribesmen were a mix of Qajar and Afshar and other Azeri Turks. By 1830 there were about 300 abandoned villages in northern Erevan. As the Moslems moved south the Armenians moved north taking the abandoned villages and their new homes. Because of the desperate need to make money Armenian weavers turned out a huge amount of rugs for export. Many of these rugs were prayer rugs


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La Miniature En Orient Plate 42: The Sleep of Rustam: "Washington DC Area - BWI - Dulles - National - Airport Limousine Service
The Sleep of Rustam

Plate 42. Persia, Mid 15th century, Formerly in the Martin Collection, Stockholm Sweden.
La Miniature En Orient by Ernst Kuhnel 1925
Translator's Note: While Kuhnel did not attribute this painting to an artist it is now widely viewed as the work of Sultan Muhammad. Stuart Cary Welch suggested that this miniature was originally intended for the book we know as the Shah-Nama of Shah Tahmasp.1. Sheila Canby takes that one step further by suggesting that Tahmasp steeped in the artistic tradition of Herat rejected this piece on stylistic grounds. 2. One point that both Welch and Canby is the date, circa 1515 - 1522.
This represents the pinnacle of the Tabriz Miniature tradition prior to the arrival of Tahmasp and Bihzad from Herat. Compared to Bihzad Sultan Mohammed could be rather clumsy and crude but the colors and the vitality make this a treasure but one that did not fit the Herat esthetic.

Detail - The sleep of Rustam
Here we see Rustan one of the great heroes of epic poetry. The earliest images of Rustan are Sacian from Central Asia. This hero was grafted onto Persian legends in the Shahnama (Book of Kings) by a poet named Firdausi. 3.
This is a beautifully executed but rather typical portrayal of Rustam. He is normally show in tiger stripes with a big cat head headdress. This miniature is especially interesting because of the jajim that Rustam is sleeping on. "

Islamic art and Persian Miniature Paintings: "Visit More Oriental Rug Notes by Barry O'Connell
The Plates of La Miniature En Orient
This is a look at some fine works of Islamic art. Following my tastes it leans more towards sixteenth century Persian Miniature painting. The biggest problem with these is getting good pictures. So I hope you enjoy what I have found so far.
Plate 42: The Sleep of Rustam
Plate 46: Bears
Portrait of a Seated Flautist.
Boars in a Fifteenth Century Miniature

Plate 57: Portrait of a Young Woman
Seated Princess

Plate 61: Shah Tahmasp?
Plate 62: Portrait of the Prince"

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MUENCHEN TEXTILE ART




Munich Textile Art will take place from March 4th to 7th 2004.
The exhibition includes antique rugs, flatweaves, tapestries and textiles from reputable exhibitors.

The exhibitors includes Galerie Frauenknecht, Galerie Arabesque, Ex Oriente, Adil Bisim - to mention a few of the announced exhibitors. There will be more than 20 exhibitors this year.

Bertram Frauenknecht is together with his wife Mariola the organizer of the annual exhibition. Quality is everything for Munich Textile Art, says Bertram Frauenknecht to Jozan Magazine.

The numbers of visitors at the exhibition is expected to be approximately 2000.

The James C. Allen Azeri Gendge Rug: "Gendge rugs and Kazak rugs are closely related. One important attribution is the wefts.First of all Gendge and Kazak rugs commonly have red wefts. They also have variation in the number of shots of wefts. Here we can see places where they used two shots and others where they used 4. Most Caucasian rugs have two shots of tan white or brown wefts. When you see red, more than two or variation in the number thing Gendge and Kazak rugs.Also this has the classical flat back we expect in Gendge rugs."

Guide to Bolnisi Bordjalou rugs: "Type A is a very different rug than Type B. The two center field latch hook medallions in Type A are much closer to the secondary medallions in a Lori Pambak Rug then they are to any of the iconography of Type B. Since Type B is from Gardabani where we have the greatest concentration in Georgian Bordjalu and Type A is most similar to Armenian rugs I came to the conclusion that Type A rugs must come from Karayazy became Gardabani in 1947. Plate 53 in Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers shows a Bordjalu Kazak with some characteristics of Akstafa rugs."

Type B

A Guide To Pin-wheel Kazaks: "Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers page 137 plate 54 shows a 1928 Zakgostorg Lithograph of a pin-wheel Kazak ascribed to the village of Kuttar in the Borchalo district.

I believe that the village of Kuttar in the Borchalo district is Kurtlyar in the district of Marneuli in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. I am not suggesting that all pinwheel Kazaks came from Kurtlyar but I think we can attribute the type to that area of the southern end of the Marneuli district"