floor covering from the Caucasus woven in the vicinity of Kuba (now Quba) in northern Azerbaijan. Kuba carpets of the last century and a half of several major types were woven in villages centred around the towns of Perepedil, Divichi, Konaghend, Zejwa, Karagashli, and Kusary. They are as a group the most finely knotted Caucasian rugs, particularly the Perepedil, which show a highly geometrized floral design on a blue or ivory field. The Konaghend most frequently feature a large central medallion, while those rugs labeled as Karagashli usually contain isolated elements from the Persian avshan (“sprig”) or harshang (“crab”) designs. The most common type of large, red-field Caucasian soumak rug was woven in the nearby town of Kusary.