Afshari carpet “Songur” (Songor)

Abstract

In the paper the origin of the unique and well-known design of the carpet of Afsar «Songur», design features and semantics of decorative motifs performs as the subject of research. At present in private collections, mass media, and in the descriptive texts on carpet drawn up by foreign companieson the sale of goods «Songur» is presented as a Kurdish carpet art. However, it is disturbing
to present various sources of carpets, such as «Kolyayi», «Sirjan», «Hamadan», «Zanjan», «Sarab», «Kalardasht» and even «Khotan». Pointing to this issue in the article, it is proved that the territory of carpet is Turkish-Afshar origin.