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| Sailer |
Not a great deal can be said about the origins of the following carpets.Until Ulrich Schurmann,they were simply classified as Kazaks.Schurmann borrowed the expression from Kerimov`s vast and unwieldy “Azerbaijan Carpets”,which is full of unconfirmed attributions,but apparently strong on fieldwork.There the author illustrates a Karachov carpet said to be stored in the Shah Abbas Mosque in Ganja,and a 5-Year-Plan rug similar to a piece in the book of Isaev.Perhaps for Kerimov the problem lay in the proximity of Georgia and the Kvemo Kartli area of Borchalo to the major production areas for the Karachov,Borchalo(u) and Fachralo carpets,which were difficult to fit into his nationalist world-view.That chauvinism is without doubt the major stumbling-block for carpet scholars in the producing countries need not concern us here,but the area south of Tbilisi in the 19th century was inhabited by Georgians and Azeri Turks,with a minority of Armenians.It is likely that the carpets known as “Karachov”(or Karachoph,or Karachop)were created and woven by Turkish peoples,or by others who were well versed in the tradition of Anatolian and Turkmen carpet design.The prototype for the Karachovs has been often documented-the large pattern Holbein carpets and their 4-and-1 designs from the 16th century.However a carpet in the David Foundation,presumably Egyptian,anticipates the Anatolian design by several centuries.Georgia itself was the source of a number of very early carpet fragments unearthed in the Muguti cave complex,where additional finds of weaving equipment may indicate local production.Karachov is said by Irina Koshoridze to incorporate seven villages,and to lay in Eastern Georgia,however she fails to place it on her map.All other sources follow Schurmann`s book from 1960,but the author has been unable to find any mention of Karachov on a genuinely old map of the area,so the geography remains questionable.A collection of old maps can be viewed here:
Caucasian Maps . Assuming the Georgian attribution to be correct,the instigators of this large-scale production would have sat in Tiflis,itself a major carpet trading node.
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| Kerimov III-154-108,stored in the Shah Abbas Mosque in Ganja |
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| The Shah Abbas Mosque in Ganja |
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| David Foundation(previously with Yves Mikaeloff) |
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| Early fragments found in the Muguti Caves,Georgia(see Hali 99) |
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| Schurmann,1960 |
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| 001 |
LEAF AND CALYX BORDER
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| 002 |
Blue Field-Yellow Border
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| 003 |
Bluegreen Field-Red Border
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| 004 |
Bluegreen Field-Yellow Border
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| 005 |
Green Field-Red Border
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| 006 |
Green Field-Yellow Border
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| 007 |
Green Field-Red Border-4 Boxes in Medallion
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| 008 |
Green Field-Red Border SOT 2 type
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| 009 |
Red Field-Blue Border
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| 010 |
Red Field-Green Border
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| 011 |
LEAF & 4 ARROWS
Green Ground-Yellow Border
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| 012 |
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| 013 |
Red Ground-Blue Border
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| 014 |
RED GROUND-GREEN BORDER
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| 015 |
HOOKS AND STARS
Kotchak & 4 Arrows Border
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| 016 |
Kotchak Border
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| 017 |
Leaf & 4 Arrows
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| 018 |
Leaf & Calyx Border
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MEMLING MEDALLION
Blue-Green Ground
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| 020 |
Memling,Blue Ground
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| 021 |
Memling,Green Ground
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| 022 |
Memling,Red Ground,Rhomboid Stepped Border
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| 023 |
Memling,Red Ground
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| 024 |
Latchhook Center
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| 025 |
Running Dog Medallion
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| 026 |
Karagashli Medallions
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| 027 |
ATYPICAL BORDERS
Four Arrow and Leaf Border
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| 028 |
Four Arrow Border
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| 029 |
Four Arrow,Diverse Border Motifs
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| 030 |
Four Arrow,Kotchak & Latchhook Border
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| 031 |
Four Arrow & Leaf-Four Panel Center
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| 032 |
Four Arrow & Medallion Border
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| 033 |
Four Medallion and S
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| 034 |
Four Arrow,Yellow Border
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| 035 |
Addorsed Animal Border
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| 036 |
Borchalou Border
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| 037 |
Crab Border
Crab leaf Border
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| 039 |
Fachralo Border,Green Ground
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| 040 |
Fachralo Border,Red Ground
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| 041 |
Latchhook Border
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| 042 |
Leaf Variant Border
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| 043 |
Medallion Border
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| 044 |
Medallion Border,Tree Kazak type
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| 045 |
Potato Stamp Border,Whiteground
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| 046 |
Potato Stamp Border
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| 047 |
Ramshorn Border
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| 048 |
Scarab Border
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| 049 |
Scrolling S Border
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| 050 |
Swastika S Border
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| 051 |
Turkmen Kotchak Border
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| 052 |
Turkmen Sainak Border
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| 053 |
Whiteground Leaf & Calyx Border
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| 054 |
Whiteground Meander Border
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| 054-A |
Whiteground Rosette Border
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| 054-B |
Other Whiteground Borders
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| 055 |
Karachovs with Fachralo Panel
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| 055A |
KARACHOV VARIANT WITH DOUBLE MIHRABS
Dated examples
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| 056 |
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| 057 |
Borchalou Border
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| 058 |
Crabflower Border
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| 059 |
Fachralo Border
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| 060 |
Latchhook Border
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| 061 |
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| 062 |
Horizontal Hooks
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| 063 |
Swastika S Border
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| 064 |
Rosette Border
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| 065 |
Sainak Border
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| 066 |
Other Borders
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| 067 |
KARACHOV VARIANT WITHOUT MIHRABS
Borchalou Border
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| 068 |
Latchhook Border
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| 069 |
Crabflower Border
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| 070 |
Leaf & Calyx Border
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| 071 |
Other Borders
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| 072 |
TERMINAL KARACHOV VARIANTS
Kotchak Panels
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| 073 |
Central Medallion
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| 074 |
Holbein Medallion
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| 075 |
Medallions with Chelaberd Border
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| 076 |
Round Medallions
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| 077 |
Kotchak Panels with Sainak Border
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| 078 |
Variants,Other
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| 079 |
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