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Verné rug with stylized dragon figures, mid-19th century. 2.48 × 1.80 metres. Verné rug from the Caucasus, late 19th century; in a private collection in New York state.
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Verné rug with stylized dragon figures, mid-19th century. 2.48 × 1.80 metres.
Verné rug with stylized dragon figures, mid-19th century. 2.48 × 1.80 metres.

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Verné also spelled:
verni or verneh
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Caucasian rug
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verné rug, handmade Caucasian floor covering that was formerly termed a sileh. It is usually woven in two pieces joined at the middle, with a design composed of squarish compartments, usually in horizonal rows of two per panel. Within the squares are large backward S-shaped figures, representing dragons, filled with smaller Z-shaped figures. Often the field colours of the larger figures alternate from one row to the next. There is a narrow border, at times of reciprocal trefoils. Verné rugs are thought to have been woven around the town of Jebrail (Dzhebrail) in the Karabagh district of southern Azerbaijan. These ...(100 of 126 words)

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