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The fertile and vast province of
Azarbaijan is divided into two provinces, i. e., east and
west.
Carpet weaving has never been
popular in West Azarbaijan. On the contrary, in East
Azarbaijan, the development of this industry has always been
considerable and worthy of attention. In the last one
hundred years, Azarbaijan province has had its outstanding
share in contributing to the expansion of the carpet
industry.
So, when in Istanbul (Turkey)
the carpets in stock were insufficient, the merchants of
Azarbaijan started to install weaving looms in the different
cities of its province and throughout Iran. The result of
their initiative was the glory and splendour of this
industry in Iran. Both course and fine carpets are woven in
Azarbaijan, i.e., they weave all types of carpets (within
every seven centimetres one can count eighteen up the
seventy knots along the length of the carpets.) in the past
years and even recently very fine and good quality carpets
have been woven in Tabriz but most of them that are produced
in the other cities of the province are generally
coarsely-woven.
Normally all the carpets woven
in Azarbaijan have Ghiordes knots with double-weft. They are
durable and hard wearing.
The colours that are most often
used in the dye-houses of Azarbaijan are red, blue, yellow,
green, dark orange, beige and other commercial colours. It
can be roughly estimated that fifty percent of the colour
used in the dyeing centres are provided from natural and
herbal sources. For the rest, chemical dyes are used.
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