Antique Caucasian Kazak Rug

Dramatic Pakistani Runner Rug made in a Kazak style. Features a field of bold sky blue covered in geometric shapes. Multiple borders frame the fiel...

Stylish early 20th century antique Persian Malayer rug features hand knotted wool with a cotton warp. Beautiful age with abrash. The field varies different shades of jewel tone reds ...

Early 20th century antique Persian Hamadan rug from Western Iran. Features a modern tribal style geometric design in jewel-toned shades of deep garnet red and blue topaz. The field i...

Distinctive antique Persian Heriz rug featuring a star-shaped medallion and large white corner spandrels. Bold Heriz colors of all-natural dyes having angular geometric designs in in...

Traditionally styled semi-antique 20th century Persian Heriz rug crafted from hand-knotted wool with a cotton warp. The rug features a large multi-faceted star medallion in a red fie...

Absolutely stunning antique Art Nouveau room-sized Turkish Sivas rug. Produced from luminous hand knotted wool with an incredibly soft pile. The rug features an organic design of scr...

The Caucasus is the geographically-isolated mountainous region north of Persia between the Black and Caspian Seas. The diverse population of this area primarily consists of Armenians...

The Caucasus is the geographically-isolated mountainous region north of Persia between the Black and Caspian Seas. The diverse population of this area primarily consists of Armenians...

This south Caucasian rug in partially distressed condition features a green extended hexagonal panel with a pole medallion of stepped red diamonds terminating in bold straw pentagons...

The Caucasus is the geographically-isolated mountainous region north of Persia between the Black and Caspian Seas. The diverse population of this area primarily consists of Armenians...

Beautiful late 19th century Kazak rug with a botteh design and natural colors with red and blue, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on wool foundation.

In circa 1179 a young man who would grow up to be Cinggis Qahan (Ghengis Khan) was aided by the son of the Chieftain of the Arulat clan. The young man was Bo'orcu. He became one of Cinggis Qahan's Dorben Kulu'ud (Great Warriors). In the Yuan ch'ao pi-shih, Quatrain 205, it is recorded that later in life Cinggis Qahan said "Let Bo'orcu govern the ten thousand of the right hand which take the Altai as pillow." In other words the Qahan gave a proto-tribal unit to a key general. The Lu of Bo'orculu as coming from the same root as the Mongol term Ulus which means the land, animals, and people, that a that an IL or tribal group controls. These people became known as the Bo'orculu or people of Bo'orcu. Over the years Bo'orculu becomes Borchalu. So if Ford is correct and I believe he is that the Borchalu are Mongol than they must be descended from the Horde of Bo'orcu. The Sultanate of Borchali was located in the southeastern part of Georgia and in the eastern part of today's Turkey. At the beginning of the 18th century, Borchali was vassal of the Khanate of Ganja and in 1736 was ceded by Persian Emperor Nadir Shah...