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Since times immemorial, Nakhchivan has been among Azerbaijan’s most an-
cient artistic, commercial and cultural hubs. The area was particularly famous
for its applied and decorative arts, carpet weaving one of them.
Nakhchivan, Shahbuz, Ordubad and Julfa were the old-time centers of cut-pile
and piled carpet works, made of either wool or silk.
As in Garabagh,
dast-khaly-gebe
carpet sets were also woven here varying
from two to twenty square meters in size. Nakhchivan’s signature carpet works
were the long stripy narrow carpets adorned with geometric, vegetal and
zoomorphic ornaments. A whole series of so-called
dragon-type
Nakhchivan
carpets of the XVIII century, very rich and diverse in terms of composition, is
currently exhibited in Istanbul.
Size of the Nakhchivani carpets may reach 25-30 square meters with the den-
sity varying from 30x30 to 40x40 knots per square decimeter (i.e. 90-160 thou-
sand per square meter), and the pile 6-10 millimeters high.