Oriental
Rugs the O'Connell Notes
Kurdish Rugs are rugs woven by
Kurds. This may sound obvious but some internet characters have cooked
up a cockamamie theory that seeks to redefine Kurdish rugs to the
limits of their inventory/collections. These rascals would have you
believe that Kolyai Kurds weave non-Kurdish rugs or that Kurds of the
Garusi/Bijari group may not weave traditional Kurdish rugs. I have been
involved with a project to determine the proper Kurdish groupings based
on language and dialect. I think the advocates of this strange way of
looking at Kurdish rugs need to understand that what they call Kurdish
takes in a wide range of people in four separate but related language
group (Central Kurdish, Northern Kurdish, Laki, Southern Kurdish). To
ignore the mass of data on the Kurdish people while one seeks to define
the rugs on the basis of ones taste or inventory/collection seems, to
this writer, arbitrary, capricious, and disingenuous.
From Ambasador Eagleton:
"In addition to these well-known Iranian Kurdish rugs,
there is a wide variety of other Kurdish tribal weavings, from the far
north down the mountains to Kermanshah. Near Kermanshah the small pile
bags of the Jaf and Sanjabi tribes dominate." Kurdish
Carpet and Kelim
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Kolyai
Songhor Gallery Rug Kermanshah Province C 1920
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The city of Sonqur is a
collection point for Kolyai Kurdish rugs
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The Kolyai are Sorani Kurd
of the Southern Kurd group and are related to the Bijari (Garrusi) and
the Arbili, Adaiani (Sanandaji), Khushnaw, Sulaymani, Pizhdar, Mukri,
Warmawa, Garmiyani, Kolya'i, Zangana, Kirmanshahi. The Kurdish
People: an Analysis by language, geography, religion and ethnicity
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Illustration 3. Hartushi Rug with "Caucasian"
turtle, c. 1930
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Technical Analysis
Warp: white, black, brown goat hair, and mohair
Weft: Tan wool, three shoots
Knot: 4x5
Colors: RED, blue, blue-green, purple, orange, white Size: 104"x49"
Edge: w - 3 blue selvages
Ends: 4" plaits to 1" crossbraid
Notes on
Ambassador Bill & Kay Eagleton
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Kurd Bagface late
19th C Lot 85
Kurd Bag
Western Iran C 1900 Lot 204
Kurd
Bagface Azarbayjan-e-Gharbi Province late 19th/early 20th C Lot 284
Kurd
Long Rug Azarbayjan-e Gharbi early 20th C Lot 185
Kordi
Ballischt Khorassan Province C 1930 Lot 206
Kurd
Rug Turkey late 19th/early 20th C Lot 15
Kurd Soumak
Bagface late 19th C Lot 86
Kurd
Bagface Azarbayjan-e-Gharbi Province early 20th C Lot 282
Hakkari
Kurd Rug East Turkey circa 1800
The
Edward Stott flatwoven Kurd Bag late 19th Century
Oriental Rugs the
O'Connell Notes
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