Caucasian Rugs

There is a long tradition of rug weaving by the indigenous peoples around the Caucasus mountains - a land roughly between the Black and Caspian Seas. Caucasian Rugs tend to share common features, including bold geometric designs and strong primary colours (red, blue and ivory), with a lesser use of green, orange and mauve. They are consistently symmetrically knotted, of low to medium knot density, and the use of cotton in the foundation is limited to a relatively small number of the more finely woven types.

Rugs have been woven in all three of the independent Caucasian republics: Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, with production also in the southern Russian Republic of Daghestan.