In the XVIII century in Shusha, along with classical carpets, new carpet compositions were brought from Russia, at home from Europe, fragrant soap, fences and other patterns from various household items - "Baghchadagullar carpet", "Sakhsidaglar carpet", "Bulud carpet" and others. spices were woven. The color palette of Karabakh carpets is very rich. This palette reflects all the colors of Karabakh nature, the most delicate shades. From ancient times, Azerbaijani carpets have been decorated in red as a field tradition. Treated with various plants, since the Middle Ages the colors here were also taken from different types of insects. The most common way to get a red color in the hand is cochineal. Among the people he was called "red beetle", "red wolf", "oak beetle".
Motives of Karabakh carpets
The motifs of Karabakh carpets are unique in their artistic value and originality of interpretation. These carpets are based on the principle of horizontal symmetry in the true folk style of decorative mastery of the subject. Earlier, along with beautiful paintings on Karabakh carpets, the hunting plot was the main one, but later it is clear that the interest in carpet weaving has decreased. They had almost no dynamic hunting scenes, only the attributes and symbols of hunting. Later, this process deepened, and in the first quarter of the twentieth century, hunting completely disappeared as a subject, giving way only to compositionally related animal descriptions.
