Artistic and Technical Characteristics of the Dagestani Flat-Woven Carpets

The article provides an overview of the technical, ornamental and decorative characteristics of the Dagestani flat-woven carpets. It is noted that the Dagestani carpet-weaving both in terms of the technique of weaving and ornamental richness of carpets and rugs, - is the original phenomenon; that Lezgi Sumakhs, Avar flat-woven «Davagin» and «Supradum» rugs with their unique images, Kumyk «Dum» with their inimitable combination of Caucasian and Turkic ornamental motifs, have no analogues in the World. Dagestani carpet-weaving, with all the diversity and uniqueness of local types and shapes of carpet, contains signs that allow to characterize it as a General, the Dagestani tradition. As a result of the involvement of the Dagestan Republic in the political, economic and cultural life of the Caucasus, the Muslim East, Russia, the influences on and innovations in the carpet production were inevitable. These innovations were expressed in the formation of aesthetic preferences, «fashion» and the demand for certain types of carpets, carpet craft refocusing on the needs of the market, in the dissemination of technology and ornamentation of carpets outside the areas of their traditional existence

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