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tured in the XV century is among the exhibits of Pergamon, Berlin.
Sheikh Safi
,
a true masterpiece of the Azerbaijani carpet art with a breathtaking overall
area of 56 square meters, woven in 1539 in Tabriz (an ancient town of Southern
Azerbaijan, nowadays North-Western Iran), is among the most renown exhibits of the
Victoria & Albert Museum in London, whereas
Khile-Buta
composition made in 1801
in Khila village (now Amirjan, the Baku School) is adorning Moscow’s State History
Museum.
In 1967, the Carpet Museum, the first of its kind in the world, was established in
Baku. Today the Museum is named after Latif Karimov, a famous scholar, artist and
renown expert in carpets and applied arts. The Museum currently holds the complete
collection of carpet works of the XVIII-XX centuries featuring all carpet schools of
Azerbaijan.
On November 16, 2010, Azerbaijan’s carpet art tradition was included in UNESCO’s
Intangible World Cultural Heritage List.