Şamaxı xalçaçılıq sənətinin tarixindən

Abstract

Shamakhi is one of the ancient cities and cultural centres of Azerbaijan which was also particularly famous with a number of different fields of craftsmanship including carpet-wearing. This region is considered to be very rich with dye plants and also has a convinient circumstance for caprine rasing, two of them are the main reason for high development of carpet-wearing in Shirvan and also Shamakhi. Small size, tight weaving, a composition with geometric decoration, softness and brightness are of main features for Shamakhi carpets. Article is about all above mentioned and also about the history, development and technical features of carpets in Shamakhi.