Shirvan Rugs the O'Connell Guide

Afshan.

• Afshan Kuba or Shirvan Long Rug
• Afshan Kuba or Shirvan Long Rug
• A Kuba Afshan gallery carpet,
• Karabagh Corridor Carpet
• A Caucasian 'Afshan' carpet fragment, 18th c

Shirvan Rug Dated 1815

Akstafa

Where did the Akstafa rugs go? I decided that even though Akstafa Rugs are Azeri rugs structurally akin to Shirvan rugs they are woven in western Azerbaijan and Southeast Georgia and belong in the Kazak group.

• Guide to Akstafa Rugs

Baku:

• Shirvan Baku long rug circa 1900

• The Oliveira Shirvan Surahani ‘Garden' Rug

• Almost too good to be true Baku

  • A late 19c.Kuba-Shirvan-rug

• Shirvan Baku Surahani

• Surahani Baku Long Rug

• Shirvan-Baku Surahani rug

• A Baku long rug 2nd half 19th century

• A Baku Harshang long rug, ca. 1800

• Bijov, Bidjov, or Bidshof

  • The Cocoon Bijov Shirvan Rug

  • Small 19th century Bidjov Rug

  A late 19c. Kuba-Shirvan-rug

  
  
  

• Blossom

  • Shirvan Rugs: An unusual Shirvan 'blossom' Long Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: North Shirvan-Kuba Chichi Blossom Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: Late 19th c. Flower Shirvan

• Fyndygan

  • Shirvan Rugs: The Wovendesire Fyndygan Baku Long Rug

• Harshang:

  • Shirvan Rugs: Yellow Ground Harshang Long Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: Four Harshang Derivative Village Rugs

  • Shirvan Rugs: Rare Elements NW Persian Harshang Fragment

  • Shirvan Rugs: Mid-19th C. Azerbaijan "Harshang" Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: A Shirvan Harshang rug lot 11

  • Shirvan Rugs: The Alberto Levi harshang palmette Saujbulagh Kurd

• Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan rug in a Konangkend Style

• Blue Field "Shrub" Shirvan Rugs

  • Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan Rug Blue Field "Shrub"w/Structure

  • Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan Rug Dated 1815 Blue Field "Shrub"

• Shirvan Rugs: A Shirvan Lesgi Star Lesghier Sternen rug

• Shirvan Rugs: Antique Shirvan Caucasian Rug w/ Structure

• Shirvan Rugs: A Shirvan Long Rug lot 271

• Shirvan Rugs: A late 19c. Kuba-Shirvan-rug

• Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan prayer rug mid 19th C. Nagel Lot 23

• Shirvan rug C. 1900 Christie's Lot 235

• Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan prayer rug 19th C. Nagel Lot 25

• Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan rug 19th C. Nagel Lot 28

• Shirvan Kelim Azeri Type

• Gubpa Shirvan

  • Shirvan Rugs: Guide to Karagashli and Gubpa Shirvan rugs

  • Gubpa Shirvan long rug

  • Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug w/ structure J. C. Oliveira

  • Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan Rug with structure

• Maraza Gabistan

  • Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan Gabistan Pattern

  • Shirvan Rugs: A late 19th ct. Tachte Shirvan rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: 19th C. Maraza Gabistan Shirvan Rug

  • Related borders Shirvan Rugs: The Wovendesire Fyndygan Baku Long Rug

A related rug is published in Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers plate 30 attributed to the village of Maraza. See also Bennett, Ian et al. Oriental Rugs Volume 1 Caucasian plates 269 - 271.

• Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan / Kurdamir Rug

• The Oliveira Stylized Lotus Palmette Shirvan Rug

• Shirvan Rugs: The Oliveira Shirvan Rug

• S Border Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: S Border Shirvan Long Rug mid-19th C. Sotheby's Lot 31

• Stepped Medalion

  • Shirvan Rugs: The Frauenknecht Shirvan Stepped Medallion Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: A Shirvan long rug lot 284

  • Shirvan Rugs: The Oliveira Three Medallion Shirvan 2

  • Shirvan Rugs: The Oliveira Three Medallion Shirvan rug

  • A Shirvan Long Rug dated 1905

• Shirvan Rugs: The Oliveira Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug

• Prayer Rugs

  • Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan Prayer Rug circa 1890 - Hands

  • Shirvan Rugs: The Woodmen Shirvan Prayer Rug

  • Shirvan Rugs: Shirwan Prayer Rug ca. 1850 - Hands

• Shirvan Rugs: Shirvan Runner circa 1890

Marasali Rugs

Typical Shirvan Structure

• Shirvan two cord white cotton selvage sometimes blue. Wool in very old examples, cotton in newer. Normally the same material and color as the wefts.

• Ends: Upper – fringe. Lower loops. Loops often woven into band See Mallett

• Flat back

• Warps are flat or mildly depressed. 2 ply warps often barber-poled the lighter ply may be cotton.

• Notes: Stone mentions averages of 113 kpsi and average size of 28 square feet. Oriental Rug Lexicon. He also mentions Akstafas as a type of Shirvan that averages 107 kpsi and average size of 34 square feet. Oriental Rug Lexicon

• Chajli

  • Notes: Stone mentions that Chajli rugs may have wool or cotton wefts and average 100 kpsi and average size of 40 square feet. Oriental Rug Lexicon page 46.

• Bijov

  • Notes: Stone mentions that Bijov are the coarest of the Shirvans and average 94 kpsi. He also noted that they are all wool and are the largest of all the Shirvans. Oriental Rug Lexicon page 26.

Some Important Books and Articles on Caucasian Rugs:

Bennett, Ian et al. Oriental Rugs Volume 1 Caucasian.

Der Manuelian, L. and M. Eiland: Weavers, Merchants and Kings, Inscribed Rugs from Armenia

Kaffel, Ralph. Caucasian Prayer Rugs

Keshishian, James Mark. Inscribed Armenian Rugs of Yesteryear.

Schurmann, Ulrich. Caucasian Rugs.

Stone, P.F. Rugs of the Caucasus: Structure and Design.

Togan, Z.V., The Origins of the Kazaks and the Ôzbeks, edited and translated by H.B. Paksoy

Wright, Richard. Wertime, John. Caucasian Carpets and Covers