Fig. 6 of Plate [I], represents the well-known Chichi border stripe, composed of rosettes separated by diagonally drawn ribbon-like bars. To the rosettes are attached tri-cleft leaves. This stripe suggests at once some Persian vine and flower.
What is known as the crab pattern (Plate [I], Fig. 7), is seen in Kazaks and other Caucasian nomadic rugs, as well as in a few very modern Asia Minor pieces. Though its resemblance to a crab is noticeable, it is really a rosette to which are attached four crudely drawn leaves, that frequently contain smaller designs at their centres.
Plate I. Primary Border-Stripes of Caucasian Rugs
Slightly resembling the last is the so-called tarantula pattern (Plate [I], Fig. 8), that was possibly derived from the stripe with an eight-pointed star (Plate [K], Fig. 12, opp. Page 230); but it seems more probable that the inspiration is Iranian and that it is intended for rosette and double vine. This stripe is found in Kazaks, Genghas, Tcherkess, and other nomadic rugs.
Somewhat like the last is the stripe of Plate [I], Fig. 9, that is now and then seen in old Tiflis and other rugs of Southern Caucasia. It suggests a geometric rosette and double vine.
Occasionally the dainty clover-leaf design, represented in Plate [I], Fig. 10, is used by the nomadic weavers. It is almost the only reciprocal pattern found in a Caucasian primary stripe.
The repetitive urn-shaped pattern of Plate [I], Fig. 11 is once in a while seen in old rugs of the Daghestan country.
On account of the resemblance between the stripes shown in Plate [I], Figs. 12 and 13, they have probably a common origin. Both are found in rugs of the Daghestan and Shirvan districts, and the former is occasionally seen in rugs of Asia Minor. Sometimes smaller adventitious devices are placed at the sides of the stripes between the rosettes.