AZERBAYCAN MİLLÎ TARİH MÜZESİ’NDE EL DOKUMA BİR ŞAL ÖRNEĞİ
A HAND-WOVEN SHAWL EXAMPLE IN AZERBAIJAN NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Summary/Abstract: The traces of the Turkish culture having extended from the Middle Asia to the alkans within centuries are also seen in ethnographic products. Hand-weavings are the best examples of this. These traces can be seen in the similarity of the textile products of Azerbaijan and Turkey, two states descending from the Oghuz tribe. The mansion belonging to the deceased Hadji Zeynelabidin in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has been used as a National History Museum since 1920. A fabric included in the inventory of the museum and having a rich archeological and ethnographic material belonging to the geography was found during a field survey made in the museum on the 13th April, 2017 and examined via the approval of the museum administration. In the article, both the piece of twill-braided shawl fabric in the sizes of 36,5x41,5 cm, one of the hand-woven woolen shawls produced in the early 18th and the 19th century, included in the Azerbaijan National History Museum, its characteristics and the analyses made and the similar example included in the Vedat Nedim Tor Museum will be mentioned.

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