Colorful Caucasian Kazak Rug

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...

On a navy to black ground, the notched and pointed crimson sub field displays a navy or black cartouche with six Memling guls accented in straw, ivory, red and black. Four more Memli...

Although coarse like a typical Caucasian Kazak, the design is derived from east Caucasian Shirvan rugs with its elongated head and foot panel enclosing octogons in ivory and straw. The abrashed teal ground is particularly attractive and is adorned with stars-in-octagons, animals and nested boxes...

The madder red field displays three adjoin cream, red and green winged Sewan-style Caucasian medallions, with polychrome hooked herringbone flowers. Carrot ...

The red and blue field shows four corner hooked devices, and embraces a doubly pointed dark blue subfield cantered around an ecru nested ashik. Cerulean blue border of stars. Wool fo...

The field is diagonally striped in dark brown and light beige, and little flowers recur in each band. The main navy border closely supports a hooked lozenge and abstract triangular f...

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...

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...

The Caucasian carpets are from the areas south, east and north of the mountain chain of the Caucasus. Carpets, made before 1925, can be divided into five groups namely; Kazak, Karabach, Sjirvan, Kuba and Dagestan carpets...