REmarks.—Frequently crooked. The Shirvan and Kabistans are often sold as Daghestans.
THE EXAMPLES ILLUSTRATED
COLOR PLATES
with accompanying descriptions at pages [84] and [292].
DOUBLETONES
DAGHESTAN RUG (page [254])
Like most rugs of its class this piece consists wholly of geometrical devices such as the latch hook, star, octagon, barber-pole stripe, etc., all spaces being filled with designs of various sizes. Each motif consists of three eight-pointed star forms, one within another. The second and third borders are purely Caucasian and represent a twig with two leaves and a flower. This motif is seldom found in any but the Caucasian fabrics.
DAGHESTAN PRAYER RUG (see page [256])
The most common form of Daghestan prayer rug with its Caucasian niche and lattice field, each square of which is filled with a peculiar rectilineal floral form. All of the border designs are characteristically Caucasian.
