EMBROIDERED CARPETS BY SHAKHLA ASKEROVA TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN THE CARPETS OF AZERBAIJAN

The article deals with one traditional kind of decorative and applied art of Azerbaijan about carpet weaving, which has an ancient history. The carpets, hand-woven by folk craftsmen at home, consisted of pile carpets, woven using two technologies - symmetric and asymmetric knot, and pileness carpets were created using 11 technologies. But in addition to traditional types of carpet weaving in Azerbaijan, folk embroidery also developed in different regions of Azerbaijan. They are also different from each other both in composition and in technology. The article talks about how the lovers of the carpet art of Azerbaijan, moving away from traditional weaving, began to create carpets without looms, in the likeness of embroidery. One of such craftswomen by this type is Shakhla Askerova, a lover of Azerbaijani carpets, for 20 years and now she began to embroider carpets not using traditional technology, that is not on a machine, but with her hands, that is, she created and creates copies of traditional carpet compositions on an ordinary convoy, without changing the color and ornament on the convoy using the "half-cross" technology. Key words: Shahla, half-cross, embroidery, carpet, technology, design, Straume