The Batik in Azerbaijan.

Zaytsev AlekseyRena IbrahimbayovaJalil TariverdievTatyana Agababayeva

The Kelagayi is a traditional handmade headscarf. Kelagai has distinct features. This is sure: 1. The product is made of silk, 2. Square, 3. size 160x160 cm, 4. ornamented in the technique of hot batik, 5. painted a certain color. Only when all these conditions headscarf becomes kelagai. Kelagai is not just a headscarf, a symbol, a symbol that helps each member of the community to effectively navigate the space of cultural norms that facilitates communication.

1. Kelagayi batiks as ancient Azerbaijan tradition

The renovating ecological production of kelagai in Basgal (Azerbaijan)

Ornamental semantics kelagai expresses universal ideas of life and together with the color of the product creates an emotionally rich space of interpersonal interaction. This is achieved by ornamental composition, each element of which is a pattern having a thousand-year history.

The sample of the scarf created by artist Abasali Talibov (in Baskal, Azerbaijan) with use of natural vegetative dyes.

In Baskal it is a stamp method while the creating scarfs and kelagais.

These patterns, fixed in stamps (Ghalib) are the codes, it is easy to decipher representatives of the cultural community.

Ornaments and songs used on kelagai for all its originality (as opposed to carpet ornamentation) have universal characteristics. This rubble, bird, plant elements are more or less stylized, express all of the same eternal themes

Ornaments and songs used on kelagai for all its originality (as opposed to carpet ornamentation) have universal characteristics. This rubble, bird, plant elements are more or less stylized, express all of the same eternal themes

According to the ancient traditions of the Azerbaijani woman throwing kelagai between the battling men can stop the bloodshed, and the girl consented to the marriage, is the fact that

gives his headscarf young man proposed to her. Kelagai is one of the obligatory gifts the bride, who brought her mother in law and father-in-law, and the wedding guests kelagaev throws a lot

on the shoulders of the groom.

Manufacturing kelagai - is the final stage of sericulture - the production of silk products. Since ancient times, that part of the workshop where dyeing was carried out (kyuphana ") was a special place. It was believed that the dye was given a great ability to create a new world, to heal, that he owns the weight of secrets.

The peculiarities of kelagai imprint situation (wedding, holiday, funeral, etc.), age, and individual preferences. For example, covering the bride's head with red kelagai whimsical arabesque or black kelagai with austere framing accurately convey the mood of the relevant events taking place.

Kelagaem cover the head and in everyday life, leaving home or taking home visitors. In the past, young women and girls are covered head as kelagai orpek and women aged tied as a turban or a dingo.

Kelagai in recent years has undergone significant changes. When you save an ornament, expanded color palette, change shape kelagai - appeared stoles and scarves with traditional and contemporary patterns.

Unlike traditional applications, today women use kelagai in the form of capes, ponchos, pareos.

Reduced to the size of the bandana (50h50sm) scarves knotted at the neck, attached to the bag.

There is “Kelagai” private interactive museum functioning within the Basgal Silk Center. There are displaced a wooden silk-weaving loom

which is 300 years old, various tools used for making Kelegai, products for getting various colors and ect. Information on grassroots of silk

weaving and silk craftsmanship in Azerbaijan is also available in that interactive museum.

The Museum of Kelegai in Baskal

2. The First in Azerbaijan batik exhibition in Museum Center in Baku (Director of the exhibition - Gasimov Galib)

Adalat Veliev, the Deputy Minister of Culture in Azerbaijan

Farhad Halilov, the Chairman of the Union of Artists in Azerbaijan

Tatyana Agababayeva, Rena Ibrahimbayova and Liana Vezirova, the Director of the Museum Center

Tatyana Agababayeva, the curator of the exhibition

Omar Eldarov

Jalil Tariverdiev and Ilaha Zeynalova

Rena Ibrahimbayova

Enver Qarayev, Year of the cock | silk | 1986 | 240x130

Salar Mamedov, Pearls | cotton | 2010 | 96x85

Arif Ibrahimov, Maiden Tower | silk | 2011 | 150x150

Ilham Safarli, Gamma-quantum and neytrino beams of the Sun | silk | 1989 | 60x60

Tatyana Agababayeva, East and West | silk | 2007 | 125x90

Tatyana Agababayeva, Allegory of a silkworm | triptych, silk | 2005 | 190x100

Aleksandr Agababayev, Apocalypse | silk | 2001 | 100x90

Aleksey Zaytsev, Dish with pomegranates | silk | 2009 | 180x93Aleksey Zaytsev, Vine | silk | 2005 | 60x40

Nikolay Zaytsev, Autumn Bouquet | silk | 2007 | 186x95Nikolay Zaytsev, Cellist | silk | 2006 | 102x70

Inna Kostina, Simurg | triptych, silk, mixed technique | 2005 | 150x50

Halida Nasirova, Pakhlava | peachwork, silk, batik | 2011 | 105x75

Sevda Agasiyeva, Scarfs | silk, mixed technique | 2010 | 155x44

Nubar Sahbazova, Senility | silk | 2010 | 60x50

Mehdi Nagiev, Journey | silk | 2010 | 130x190

Sonahanim Nagieva, Axal teke | silk | 2011 | 120x90

Oktay Murtuzaev, | Grandson | silk | 2010 | 160x34

Kamal Semedzade, Blooming Absheron | silk | 1990 | 250x200

Ilahe MirNadir, Composition | silk | 2003 | 160x70