Peruvian press: World's first carpet museum founded in Baku

The official Peruvian state newspaper El Peruano published an article entitled "More than 10,000 Azerbaijani carpets are exhibited in a museum in Baku" by Ricardo Sanchez, a well-known journalist and vice-president of the Federation of Peruvian Journalists, who visited Azerbaijan's liberated territories, Report informs.

According to the Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico, the article says that the world's first carpet museum was founded in 1967 in the Old City of Baku, and since 2014 the museum has been operating as today's Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, where more than 10,000 carpets have been exhibited.

Sanchez noted that the carpet weaving tradition is an ancient art of the Turkic peoples, and the authors of works known as Persian carpets were the Turkic peoples.

Along with the carpets found and repatriated by the Azerbaijani government from different parts of the world, the museum displays carpets brought from the Shusha History Museum shortly before the Armenian occupation of Shusha in 1992, as well as the carpets saved by IDPs and presented to the museum.

The article describes the various carpet-weaving schools in Azerbaijan, including Karabakh, Ganja-Gazakh, Guba-Shirvan and Tabriz schools, the typical weaving styles of these schools, the dimensions, patterns, colors, figures used on carpets and their symbolic meaning and purpose of carpets.