
A subtype of theKuba rug, antique Seychour (also known as Seichur and Zeychour) rugs are made in the small town ofYukhari-Zeykhur inAzerbaijan in the NortheastCaucasus. Prized for the detailed precision of their drawing and design as well as for their saturated colors, antique Seychourrugs popularly display designs such as cabbage rose and the Seychour cross. Differing from other Caucasian rugs, antique Seychour rugs do not share the same symmetry in their borders; they do however, share a similarflat-woven structure. In these particular rugs, one half of the knot is hidden.