REF.: R24895

Caucasian flatweave

Price range:   €5.000,00 - €10.000,00
Description:   Caucasian flatweave
Dimensions:   L327xB177
Origin:   Caucasus
Period:   1880-1940
Medium:   warp and weft: wool
Technique:   Flatweave

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Caucasian carpets come from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The weavers of these mountainous regions enjoyed a solid reputation, and it was not without reason that Shah Abbas (16th century) forced 27.000 Armenian families to settle south of his capital Isfahan to work in the imperial workshops and produce the most prestigious carpets that history has ever bequeathed to us. The Caucasian tradition, however, is not the result of meticulous, sophisticated work, producing designs that have been worked over to the extreme. They are the expression of a popular idiom that elevates its folklore to the heights of art. The weavers of the Caucasus have always worked in the purest village tradition, on rudimentary looms in their farms and homes. This spontaneous, discontinuous, and intuitive work left the designs and colours completely free. Everyone in the household put their own lent a personal touch to the work. But the revolution of 1917 and t...

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