SEMI ANTIQUE SHIRWAN CARPET WITH THE OTHOMAN BLUE CERAMIC DESIGNS IN STYLIZED HEAD OF HORSE HORSE. INDIGO COLOR IS DOMINATED CORAILLE COLOR. PATTERN ARE COPIED FROM BLUE MOSQUE OF ISTAMBOUL.THIS IS A GENUINE ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC PIECE OF ART WITH PRIMITIVE RELIGIOUS INSPIRATIONS SPECIALLY MADE WITH OLD TRADIONAL MOTIVES AND SYMBOLES EITHER IN FLORAL, GEOMETRICAL OR STYLIZED ANIMALS SHAPES FOR PERSONEL USE, MEDITATION OR RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES AMONG TRIBAL AND NOMADIC DERVICHE SUFI FELLOWERS. USUALLY THEY SIT CROSSED LEGS AROUND THE CARPET.
IN L00OKING CAREFULLY TO THIS EXHEBITED TRIBAL CARPET AND IMMAGINE ALL THE DETAILS FOUND EITHER IN THE BORDURES OR IN THE CORNERS OR IN THE MIDLE WE CAN SEE LOTS OF IRREGULARITIES AND MISTAKES DONE INTENTIONALLY IN THEIR MOTIVES BECAUSE THEY CONSIDER THAT PERFECTION IS ONLY FOR THE MIGHTY GOD ACCORDING TO THEIR RELIGIOUS AND TRADITIONAL BELEIVES.
FROM SMALL DETAILS OF THEIR PRIMITIVE DESIGNS AND ARTISTIQUE MOTIVES, WE DISSCOVER THE SECRET OF THE SKILL AND ABILITY OF THE DERVICHE SUFI WEAVER.
IN ACHIEVING SUCH PIECE OF ART WHICH WILL ACCOMPANI THEM DURING ALL OF THEIR LIVING TIME UNTIL THEIR DEATH.
IN ADDITION EACH CARPET HAS ITS OWN CHARMS AND CHARACTERS AND NEVER WE CAN FIND TWO TRIBAL CARPETS SIMILAR.
THIS CARPET IS CONSIDERED AS PART OF A NOMADIC AND TRIBAL RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE TREASURE ART AND WEALTH BECAUSE IT WAS INHERITED EITHER FROM THEIR ELDER OR PRESENT PARENTS OR RELATIVES AND WHICH LATER ON WILL BE GIVEN TO THEIR FUTUR CHILDREN AS A SOUVENIR.
THIS PIECE CONTAINS LOTS OF RELIGIOUS SACRED MOTIVES AND SYMBOLES HANDWEAVED IN THIS CARPET IN ADDITION TO THEIR TRADITIONAL DESIGNS AND PATTERNS WHICH COULD BE UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY DERVICHE SUFI FELLOWERS OR LOCAL TRIBES MEN AND EVEN TO IDENTIFY THE ORIGINE OF THE PERSON FROM THE CARPET. THIS PIECE WAS NOT MADE FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE OR REASON AS MUCH AS IT WAS MADE WITH PASSION, PATIENCE AND CONCENTRATION DURING THEIR FREE TIME EITHER EARLY IN THE MORNING OR IN THE MIDLE OF THE DAY WHEN THE SUN IS TOO HOT IN ORDER TO USE IT AS A FLOOR COVERRING TO ADD MORE JOYFUL COLOURS AND HARMONY IN WINTER TIME WHEN WEATHER IS TOO COLD AND MOVING IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBEL.
ALL MATERIAL USED IN THEIR HANDWEAVING ARE COLLECTED FROM THEIR OWN ANIMALS AS WELL AS THE DIES ARE MADE FROM VARIOUS NATURAL AND VEGETAL PLANTS KNOWN BY THEM GENERATIONA AGO IN ORDER TO PREPARE THE DIEYING OF THEIR WOOL.SOME TIMES THEY USE THE URINE AND THE BLLOD OF THEIR ANIMAL IN THEIR DEIES. THIS CARPET WAS WEAVED VERTICALLY IN A WOODEN TREE LOOM.
