Quba rug
Illustration — Soumak flat-weave rug from Quba Rayon or Daghestan, mid-19th century. Caucasian carpets and rugs are primarily made in villages, rather than in cities. They are made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces, the rugs of the Caucasus normally display bold geometric designs in primary colors.
Also recorded as Kuba rugs and carpets · Guba carpet · Kuba carpet · Quba rugs and carpets
Quba rug
Bonhams Skinner, Fine Carpets and Rare Textiles, lot 182 Kuba riug · Public domain
- Field
- rug
- Related practice
- wool
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Quba rug. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6441132 · wikipedia · Quba rugs and carpets
In this article
Overview
Styles typical to the Caucasus region are Daghestan, Verne, Shirvan, Ganja, Kazakh, Karabagh, and Quba rugs. Several carpet styles from contemporary northwestern Iran also fall largely into this bracket, such as the Ardabil rugs.
Literature
Scholarly footprint
A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Caucasian carpets and rugs, revision 1353642489 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Yetkin, Şerare. Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey: The development of the Caucasian carpet. Oguz Press. 1978. 978-0-391-00822-9.
- 2.Dagestan rug. Britannica.
- 3.Verné rug. Britannica.
- 4.Shirvan rug. Britannica.
- 5.Genje carpet. Britannica.
- 6.Kazakh rug. Britannica.
- 7.Hakobyan, Hravard H. The Medieval Art of Artsakh. Parberakan. 85–86. 1990. 5-8079-0195-9.
- 8.Karabagh rug. Britannica.
- 9.Traditional art of Azerbaijani carpet weaving in the Republic of Azerbaijan. UNESCO Intangible Heritage. 2013.
- 10.Kărimov, Lătif. Rugs & Carpets from the Caucasus: The Russian Collections. Allen Lane/Penguin Books. 1984. 978-0-14-006370-7.
- 11.Kuba carpet. Britannica.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Neff, Ivan C. and Carol V. Maggs. Dictionary of Oriental Rugs. London: AD. Donker LTD, 1977.
- Gardiner, Roger F. “Spuhler Revisited: Further Thoughts on the West Berlin Rug Catalog.” November, 1988.[1].
- Dimand, M.S. "Two Fifteenth Century Hispano-Moresque Rugs." 1964.https://www.jstor.org/pss/3258226.
- Sherrill, Sarah B."Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America."New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.
- Black, David. "The Atlas of Rugs and Carpets."London:Tiger Books, 1996.
- Ford, P.R.J. "Oriental Carpet Design."Thames and Hudson, London.1989.
- Bennett, Ian. "Oriental Rugs, Volume 1 Caucasian", Antique Collectors Club 1981,
- Yetkin, Serare. "Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey Volume I-II", Oguz Press 1978,
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Terminology
620 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Proto-CubismMovement
- psychedeliaMovement
- purismMovement
- QuattrocentoMovement
- queer artMovement
- Quito SchoolMovement
- rappingMovement
- RayonismMovement
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Quba rug?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.