THE PRODUCTION OF THE SILK AND OTHER VALUABLE FABRIES IN AZERBAIJAN IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

Abstract

Production of silk clothes in Azerbaijan was one of the spreaded kinds of industry during medieval period is associated with the rich raw materials. Several sources of this period describes Azerbaijan especially Shirvan as a big center on production and delivering the silk in the East. Abundance of the primary products facilitated the production differents kinds of silk fabrics. The special course in the silk-weaving was the production of precious textiles, which the medieval sources define as “zerbaft” (zer í gold, baftí weaver). Zerbaft was the generalized name of the different precious textiles (atlas, diba, damask, velvet, taffeta, darai and ete), which were produced from high-quality silk with using delicate spinning and band gold and silver. In more expensive fabries besides it there were depicted various animals, heros of the classic writer’s works, especially Mqnun – the hero of the Nizami Ganjavi’s poem “Leyli and Majnun”.