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Issue 95
HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY
UDK: 39(470.67):745.522.2
ON DRAGON MOTIFS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF DAGHESTAN FLAT-WOVEN CARPETS
GARUNOVA Saida Magomedkhanovna
In publications on Caucasian carpet weaving, dragon carpets are often interpreted as an invention of one of the Caucasian peoples, which served as the initial basis for the emergence of local “imitations of dragon carpets” of peripheral ethnic groups. The approach proposed in the article to the issues of classifying carpets of the eastern (Caspian) Caucasus by region (Shirvan, Quba, Southern Dagestan) consists in examining the carpet weaving of these regions in the context of the fact that in the Russian and Soviet periods of history, the majority of carpet designs identified with specific weaving centers (villages, micro-zones) were used in carpet production in the aforementioned regions everywhere, i.e. regardless of the ethnic diversity (the Azerbaijanis, Lezgins, Tats, Tabasarans, Aguls, Tsakhurs, Rutuls) of the population. In this regard, attention is drawn to the degree of involvement of Azerbaijan and Dagestan in the international carpet trade, the orientation of carpet production in these countries to the demands of the European and American markets, and the fact that in the second half of the XIX century, more than 40,000 carpet weavers worked in the carpet production industry in Dagestan alone. It is noted that dragon carpets - sumakhs were woven mainly in the Lezgin villages of Azerbaijan and Dagestan, and also that the smooth-woven carpets dum and davagin , produced by Avar and Kumyk weavers, are absolutely identical in their artistic and technical characteristics on the one hand, and on the other hand, have no direct analogues in the world.
Pages: 118 - 121
Date: 23.12.2024