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Gadim Minare carpet

Qədim Minarə xalçalarıAzerbaijan

Gadim Minare carpets — Azerbaijani carpets belonging to the Guba carpet-weaving school.

Old minaret rug, Guba school, XIX c.
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Gadim Minare carpets — Azerbaijani carpets belonging to the Guba carpet-weaving school. 1

Classification

It is mainly produced in the city of Guba. Some carpet weavers simply call it "Darayi" or "Salyan khilasi". 1

Specifications

Ancient minaret carpets are among the excellent examples of Guba-Shirvan carpet weaving school. The size of such carpets starts from 120x400 cm. Carpets are 145,000 to 200,000 per square meter, and the height of the loops is 5-7 mm. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gadim Minaret carpets”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Gadim Minare carpet is type of Azerbaijani carpet, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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