Karabakh carpet school and rare samples of Karabakh carpets in three museums of the world

Abstract

In this article Karabakh rare carpets kept in three famous world museums is spoken about. Among them the plot carpet “Dragon-Simourgh” carpet (XV century), kept in Germany, in Berlin Art Museum, “Khatai-Dragon” carpet (XVIII century), kept in Washington Textile Museum, the XIX century wall carpets and carpets sets (dest-khali), kept in Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum should be noted particularly. Except it, in the article the peculiarities of Karabakh carpets, the using of contrastive bright threads, the size of such carpets, their artistic peculairities are studied also. In the article the influence of Tabriz carpet school on Karabakh carpet art, the using of European artistic styles is pointed out also. The essence of article is formed by artistic description and analyses of Karabakh carpets.