METAL-MAKING TRADE IN SHAMAKHY DURING XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES (METAL-MAKING, COPPER AND JEWELLERS TRADES)

Abstract

Article deals with the research of metal-making trade based on ethnographic approach during XIX – early XX centuries in Shamakhy city. Also author tried to investigate the issues as such trades of black-smith, copper and jewelers trades, and source materials, number of handicraft specialists, interior matters and material structures of craftsmanship districts and other issues not only in Shamakhy, buy also in around territories. Although in the late XIX century in Azerbaijan metal-making trade had problems in development process, but the main handicraft patterns of the local craftsmanship specialists for its national colorite, form characteristics and ornamental features were highly qualities from the fabricate samples of Russians and European fabrics.