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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,
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
Kolyai
Songhor Gallery Rug Kermanshah Province C 1920
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The city of Sonqur is a
collection point for Kolyai Kurdish rugs
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
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
More
Oriental Rug Notes by Barry O'Connell
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