Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum (Baku, Azerbaijan)

Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum is located in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.
The museum displays Azerbaijani carpets and rugs with historical and modern weaving techniques and materials. It has the largest collection of Azerbaijani carpets in the world.
The museum was established in 1967 and was initially located in the Juma Mosque in Icheri Sheher
(Old City or Inner City, the historical part of Baku). In 1992, the museum was moved to the second floor of what is now the Baku Museum Center (former Lenin museum).
The new building of the museum was constructed in 2014. The structure of the building looks like a rolled carpet.
Traditional art of Azerbaijani carpet weaving was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.
The Azerbaijani carpet is a traditional handmade textile of various sizes, with dense texture and a pile or pile-less surface, whose patterns are characteristic of Azerbaijan’s many carpet-making regions (Tabriz, Ganja, Garabagh, Shirvan, Baku, Guba, etc.). Carpet making is a family tradition transferred orally and through practice.
The carpet is made on horizontal or vertical looms using multi-colored wool, cotton or silk yarn colored with natural dyes. Applying special techniques to create pile carpets, weavers knot the pile yarn around threads of the warp; pile-less carpets are variously made with interlacing structural warps, wefts, and patterning wefts.
Carpet weaving is closely connected with the daily life and customs of the communities involved, its role reflected in the meaning of the designs and their applications. The carpet is widely used for home furniture and decoration, and special carpets are woven for medical treatment, for wedding ceremonies, the birth of a child, mourning rituals and prayer.
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