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Also known as: Gänjä carpet, Gendje carpet

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Genje carpet, floor covering handwoven in Azerbaijan in or near the city of Gäncä (also spelled Gendje or Gänjä; in the Soviet era it was named Kirovabad, and under Imperial Russia, Yelizavetpol). The carpets are characterized by simple, angular designs and saturated (intense) colours. Genje carpets most often have designs composed of octagons, stars, or three geometric medallions arranged on the carpet’s longitudinal axis. Typical colours are blue, dark blue, and madder red.

Old Genjes are made entirely of wool, but newer examples have piles of coarse wool knotted onto cotton foundation weaves. As the region producing Genje rugs lies between the areas producing Kazakh and Karabagh rugs, the Genje shows features of both.

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Baku rug, handwoven floor covering made in the vicinity of Baku, Azerbaijan, a major port on the Caspian Sea. Rugs have been woven in this area since at least the 18th century and probably long before, although it is difficult to determine which were woven in the city and which in such nearby villages as Surahani and Chaildag. The so-called Chila rugs were almost certainly woven in this area.

The earliest examples are larger than most Caucasian rugs, ranging about 5 × 12 feet (1.5 × 3.6 metres), often showing either an avshan (“scattered” floral sprig) or harshang (“crab”) design. Examples from later production may have some cotton in the wefts and are more likely to show a boteh (pear-shaped motif) design, often with a small medallion. Most of these rugs have a blue field.

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