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Enjelas
Rugs are commonly seen as a sub group of Hamadan Rugs. It is common to
lump these rugs from Hamadan province and a number of surrounding
provinces which use a single weft structure as Hamadan Rugs. As I go
along I am sorting out the various groups as best I can. The one common
tread besides the wefts is that most of these groups are woven by the
descendents of Shia refugees who moved south when the Czarist Russians
occupied the Persian Caucasus.
The Enjelas, Enjilas, or Ingilois
are descended from the Ingilois of the Sultanate of Ilisu in Chartalah
(Chechnya). In March
of 1830 the Russian Army seized Chartalah which started a
protracted war with Sultan Daniyal leading his men in a series of
battles against the Rus. The Ingilois were Georgian Moslems who were
held as surf to the Sultan. At this point they were able to move south
into Persia.
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Old Enjelas
Rug Herati Van-Ham
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If I remember correctly there is a splendid small
Enjelas rug in the alcove of the Secretary of State's dining room on
the top floor of the main State Department building in Foggy Bottom in
Washington DC. At least it was there when Warren Christopher was
Secretary. Back when the world was so new and unspoiled. Well before
the Bush years, the dark days. When Colin Powell got in many things
changed. I went up and took pictures one day but the camera had
problems and the pictures did not come out. Hamadan Rugs can
be very attractive and Enjelas rugs are about the best.
Enjelas
is a village just south of Hamadan and west of Gombad. It is too small
to show up on most maps. The village is noted for the best quality of
Hamadan Rug.
Just to the north of Enjelas is Everu. Everu rugs
are close in quality to Enjelas rugs but they are coarser and not quite
as pretty. Nonetheless they are often sold as Enjelas since Enjelas
rugs bring a little more money. Enjelas rugs are about the finest of
the Hamadan rugs at 105 - 130 kpsi. 130 kpsi is equal to 30 Raj as the
Iranians count it and is low for a city rug but Hamadan rugs are
village rugs and that is very respectable. Everu rugs for example
generally come in at about 90 kpsi. I suspect the rug to the left may
be an Everu.
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Enjelas Rugs
use the Hamadan Rug Weave
Single weft is called "Sennah
Baft" or Hamadan
weave. Here the wefts
are rigid and the warps
are sinuous. As you can see in the sketch the wefts
are heavier than the warps.
It is woven with symmetrical knots. Since there is only one shot of
weft between each row of knots this shows every other warp which makes
these rugs easy to spot.
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