Title: Folk designs from the Caucasus for weaving and needlework
Description: "One of the world's great weaving traditions has been preserved in Azerbaijan, a "republic" of the Soviet Union that borders on Iran. The wealth of motifs still actively used today by Azerbaijani weavers has been drawn from many Asiatic and even ancient East European sources... In 1961 the native scholar Lyatif Kerimov published hundreds of Azerbaijani motifs in clear diagrammatic form. The present volume includes most these motifs..."--title page verso.
Subjects: Patterns, Needlework, Weaving
Places: Caucasus