Chinese fret
Chinese tapestry weave. See “k’o-ssu.”
Ch’ing dynasty. The Ch’ing or Manchu dynasty governed China from 1644 to 1912. Most of the older surviving pile Chinese carpets date from this period; large-scale rug production was introduced in about 1890. See “Ming dynasty.”
chinikap. See “chinakap.”
Chinle. A Navajo reservation area of east central Arizona. From the 1930s, Navajo weavers of the area wove rugs without borders and with horizontal bands in an effort to revive 19th century designs. Colors are earth tones from vegetable and synthetic dyes.
Chinle Navajo rug Steve Getzwiller
chintamani, badge of Tamerlane (Turk.). Ottoman court motif of a triangular arrangement of three balls above two cloudbands or waves. A repeat pattern of groups of three balls only may also be termed “chintamani.” Also referred to as the “badge of Tamerlane.” The motif was widely used in Ottoman ceramics and weavings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This motif is probably of Buddhist or Chinese origin.
Chintamani
Chintamani Ushak. A rare group of sixteenth and seventeenth-century rugs from Ushak in Anatolia. These rugs have a white ground and an all-over pattern of the chintamani motif, a repeated figure of three balls in a pyramidal arrangement over two wavy lines or cloudbands. See “Ushak.”
Chiprovtsi carpet. A handmade carpet of Bulgaria, the name is from the town of Chiprovtsi where their production started in the 17th century. The carpet is two-sided with both sides having an identical design.
chirpy. A Tekke Turkmen woman’s cloak, often of embroidered silk. The chirpy has false sleeves sewed to the shoulder. The ground color is matched to the age of the wearer: yashl chirpy (green chirpy) for young women, sary chirpy (yellow chirpy) for middle-aged women, and ak chirpy (white chirpy) for old women. See “chapan” and “khalat.”
Chirpy R. John Howe
Chob Bash. See “Chub-bash.”
chobi (Persian) “colored like wood.” Describing Afghanistan and Pakistan rugs in shades of light brown or tan.
Chodor. See “Chaudor.”
Chondzoresk, Cloudband Kazak. Chondzoresk or Khondzoresk is a village south of Shusha in southern Karabagh in the Caucasus. Khondzor is Armenian for “apple.” Nineteenth century rugs of this design have one or more medallions containing motifs simi lar to cloudbands. The mean knot density of these rugs is 58 symmetric knots per square inch. These are the smallest rugs of Karabagh, with an average size of 33 square feet. See “Caucasus” and “Karabagh.”
Chondzoresk Kazak Grogan and Company
Chosroes, Spring Carpet of. See “Spring Carpet of Chosroes.”
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