De Ja-korani à Kazak Lori Pampak

Ja-korani

Very refined container for the Kuran

Ja-namaz

It is the Persian Prayer Mat, while Namazalyk is the Turkish name. Small rugs, also for convenience of transport, which present the niche design, or Mirhab, specially meant for prayer. The subject may have various reasons and symbols related to religious practice, such as Fatima’s hands on the sides of the niche.

Jal-Nim rugs

A rather fine quality Afghan rug, sometimes with a silk warp, a mixed manufacture as it presents some knotted areas, others in Soumak and others in kilim,  geometrical  design with diamond pattern across the board, many frames and the classic brick red colours Afghans, off blue, orange and blue well combined.

Jol-e-asb

Persian horse blanket the same as the Turkmen at-djoli

Jollar o jallar

In Afganistan it is a rectangular bag about 40 x 110 cm, with big fringes.

Joval , Juval, Chuval, Chouval

Large rectangular bag used by the Turkmen and Persian people.

Jufti , jofti, joft or juft ilmeh

It is a knotting technique deemed fraudulent in that instead of wrapping two adjacent warps, it wraps around three or four. Obviously, having fewer knots, the rug so manufactured it is less robust

Kalleghi , kelley, kheley, kelleghi

Rugs in which the lenght/width ratio is about 1/2,5. It is the traditional kilims’classical measure of yore.

Karabag

The region of Karabagh (« black garden ») is located in the south-eastern part of Kazak and throughout its history has been several times under the Persian influence, as demonstrated unequivocally by its rugs. Many pieces are inspired by the floral subjects of fabrics and European rugs, particularly those of the Savonnerie and Aubusson.

Karabag kilim

The Karabag kilims usually fall into the rich vein of the « goal farangh » (rose of France) motifs which spread in the Caucasus, as well as in Persia and Turkey, during the nineteenth century. inspired by Europeans rugs and floral fabrics, especially Aubusson and Savonnerie. The floral designs, even if necessarily stylized, show a certain realism in the configuration, highlighted by the use of colours reminiscent of the roses hues. In other Karabagh Kilims only the frame is floral while the subject is grid-like. The production of this type of rug has almost disappeared and really interesting, old manufacture examples are also becoming very hard to come by.

Karabag  Moldavian kilims

They are kilim with roses and impressive foliage, black sheep’s wool fabrics  by Turkish people based in rural Moldova or on the border of Turkey itself. As  happened once to  the Karabakh rugs, even this type of kilim  with the purely floral designs took inspiration from French Aubusson. Those of new manufacture are easy to find, relatively inexpensive, but they have colours too determined, to the point of being even aggressive; whilst those of the first half of the ‘900’s they have a lot more pleasant and soft colours, they are so much more beautiful, rare, therefore they furnish much better Western homes.

Karya

It is a place very close to Istanbul where rugs are woven to modern taste with a dense knot, are lightweight, with a very low fleece (not even 1 cm); it is soft, light and with a very shiny and bright wool that is an index of good quality. It is characterized by particular colours, such as yellow, red, black, etc., The colours are natural, realized according to ancient recipes that use plants and roots as the pomegranate, the root of madder, indigo.

Kashan

Ancient city between Tehran and Isfahan, located near the Dasht-e-Kavir desert, arid zone to about 1000 m above sea level. A city rich in history and monuments, with an old tradition in rugs, because even then Safavid Kashan was renowned for its master weavers. At that time there was also a royal laboratory for rug weaving, to which are attributable the beautiful « Polonaises ». After a period of decline that lasted until the mid-nineteenth century, rug weaving was a returned to its former glory. In fact, the end ‘800’s Kashan rugs are among the most beautiful of the antique rugs of Persian production.

Kashan Mohtasham Rugs

Artifacts knotted in Zufilkhar Ed Din Mohtashem, Ustadan’s laboratory, (master) weaver among the most revered in Kashan. His rugs are the ones atthe highest level of Persian art that have  ever been knotted.

Kashkuli

Tribe that is part of the group of the Qashqai nomads of Fars province, near Shiraz; besides somewhat tribal rugs, they also have been knotting for a long time very refined rugs, even among their productions of Gabbeh. Colourful rugs, knotted wool on wool and featuring decorations kharchanghi medallion with minute geometric designs in the field. The thickness of the rugs is 5-6 mm and even less. Their production also includes KILIM, MAFRASH and GABBEH. On our site you can see a remarkable assortment with fabulous pieces and now unobtainable. The very rare Ancient Kashkuli of our collection is one example.

Kazak Borcialu Antique

They’re rugs  knotted by Cossacks Borcialu in the village of Bordjalu. They are characterized by strictly geometric designs as lozenges with aligned spikes, hooked hexagons woven into each other and rhomboidal square central fields in which we see the classic and powerful border of Bordjalu that surrounds  with considerable dynamism the narrow infield, with clever use of colour in the refined combinations

Kazak Ciondzoresk or cloud-like Kazak

Ciondzoresk, a location near Bakera right in the middle of Karabagh, is a type of rug attributed to the latter group of Caucasians; warps and wefts are also brown and not red like the Kazak. The pairs of bands are said to represent the dragon and the phoenix which in the sky turn into clouds and dispense the rain.

Kazak Fachralo or Fachralu

They were knotted around the homonymous town located north of Ganja, or Ghendje, in the east of the Caucasus; they have a field  decoration with one or more star medallions obtained by the intersection of a rhombus and a rectangle within a minor medallion with hooked motifs. Very often the system is prayer-like.

Kazak Karaciof or Karaciov

Rugs which originate in a small village north of Lake Sewan and are characterized by two recurring drawings: a powerful central octagon with white background, which rests above a rectangle minutely adorned checkerboard-like and four white squares with hooked profiles on the corners containing files of eight-pointed polychrome stars.

Kazak Lambalo

In Georgia, between Bordjalu and Akstafa, lies the small settlement of Lambalo. They are Kazak rugs characterized by a clear  main border with stylized pomegranates, sometimes small cantonal, a dark blue or oxidized red brick field with quadripartite squares set to göl similarly to Talish

Kazak Lori Pampak or Lori Pambak

They take their name from the small village east of Fachralo where they were made. They are characterized by a dominant central motif, large ornaments and are limited in their palette to a few colours. The result is a monumental plant of great effect. There is also groups of Lori Pampak which have a composition with three medallions. We also have a very rare one with four medallions.