Shirvan rug, unknown maker from the Caucasus

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Shirvan rug
Shirvan rug
Shirvan rug
late 1800s
Shirvan rug , late 1800s
Where object was made: Caucasus (present-day Azerbaijan)
Material/technique: knotting; wool yarn; weaving
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.0808
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Exhibition Label: "Roots and Journeys: Encountering Global Arts and Cultures," Jul-2011, Nancy Mahaney The wide, patterned-border, and series of diamond-shaped medallions of this rug illustrate the types of Oriental rug designs that began to influence the direction that Navajo weavers of the Ganado, Kayenta, and Two-Gray Hills regions in New Mexico took with their weaving beginning in the early 20th century.