What is known as the Georgian stripe is shown in Plate [J], Fig. 9. It is found in Daghestans, Kabistans, Shirvans, Soumaks, Shemakhas, and Kubas. Though a primary stripe, it is rarely placed at the centre of the border, but at the outer or the inner side, or at both sides with a less ornate stripe between. As a rule it accompanies only the more artistic rugs.
Generally the primary stripes of Soumaks are different from those of other rugs. A few appear in Figs. 10, 11 and 12 of Plate [J]. The last is interesting on account of the leaf-like forms of the octagonal designs.
Plate J. Primary Border-Stripes of Caucasian Rugs
The stripes seen in Plate [J], Figs. 13, 14 and 15 are found only in nomadic rugs. The last is interesting principally on account of the swastikas.
And old form now and then seen in the Daghestan-Shirvan classes appear in Plate [J], Fig. 16. It is an archaic pattern copied from a most interesting Daghestan prayer rug.
The stripe shown in Plate [J], Fig. 17 is sometimes adopted in rugs of Southern Caucasia, such as the Kutais and Kazak.
Another very old pattern found in the borders of the Daghestan-Shirvan classes is shown in Plate [J], Fig. 18. Though it suggests the narrow tertiary stripes known as “barber-poles,” it differs from them by being very much wider, and by containing bars of many different colours, as red, yellow, cream, blue, green, and brown, which generally contain short, oblong dashes.