Armenian Rug Motifs

This is especially true of the use of geometric patterns.

Armenian rug motifs. Rugs formed an indispensable part in the dowry of armenian girls who familiarized themselves at an early age with the art and prepared their own dowry of carpets. This design is un sheared and has a pile height around 1 2. Different in philosophy and religion aesthetically the rugs of the turks and persians and those of the armenians are similar. Tribal motifs and fine detailing handknotted in 100 wool.

Comprising concentric bands of square panels the rust red field with four square panels containing stylized bird and geometric motifs in a blue zigzag frame in a royal blue paneled border containing similar motifs the broad rust red paneled outer stripe with. Armenian carpets artifacts. Long before the pinwheel symbol was corrupted by the nazis to become the swastika many ancient cultures saw it as a symbol of life. Rug weaving has been part of the armenian culture since prehistoric times.

Geometric motifs are far and away the most common type of patterning on rugs. Some of these motifs include figs asoka trees pine cones turtles serpents and birds. The cruciform with its variations would eventually come to dominate armenian carpet designs. Antique kazak rugs the historic kazak khanate was bounded by the rugged mountains and lush valleys of armenia azerbaijan and georgia.

Beautiful antique collection of tribal caucasian kazak rugs. Armenian inscriptions are an im portant part of the whole design and give information about both the weaver and the date of. Golden sunwashed tones elevate this traditional armenian border rug. The geometric motifs found on armenian rugs date back millennia.

Baku zili circa 1900. Geometric forms such as rectangles. According to renowned rug scholar ulrich schurmann the earliest known existing rug known as the pazyryk circa 500 b c was in all probability woven by ancestors of the armenians the urartuans the people of ararat. Every region in armenia wove with its own preference of mythological flora fauna and other motifs of nature instruments of labor and domestic articles.

It was returned by the coolidge family to the white house in 1982. 03 x 09 1 410 00 05 x 07 1 739 00 06 x 09 3 196 00. The armenian orphan rug also known as the ghazir orphans rug is an armenian styled carpet woven by orphans of the armenian genocide in ghazir lebanon the carpet took eighteen months to make and was eventually shipped to the united states where it was given to president calvin coolidge as a gift in 1925. They have common motifs patterns and colors.

Some of the motifs used in armenian rugs may have been the result of contact with india and china as early as the 4th century ad.