We have spent three nights based in Quba in an apartment at The Gold Hotel. This has given us plenty of time to have a good look around and to drive up to the mountain villages. It’s a very clean and tidy town, the streets are wide and there has not been much traffic once you leave the main road.
We spent a few hours wandering around the Red Village across the river. This is a settlement of Mountain Jews and some of the buildings are very old. Some are being restored with help from donations abroad. It was so quiet on the afternoon we were there, hardly a person, car or dog in sight!
Jo and I also went to the history museum in the park, it had lots of beautiful carpets and highlighted the contributions of women to the community. We also found a carpet weaving workshop, where three women were working on their looms. It can take ten months to make a carpet, and some of them have up to five people working on the same one. I showed them my very simple loom and some of my other items and we shared a craft bond, that I find worldwide. It was wonderful.
Chris Godman 
The international language of weaving!! Tea making looks complicated there. 🤪
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Not really, but it is an art form!
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Wow! Another wonderful adventure way off the tourist trail! Enjoy guys and we will through your wonderful posts.
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Thanks Sue, it is definitely out of the way, but well worth the drive. Makes me appreciate even more the many comforts we take for granted.
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Wish the streets here were so clean
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There were actual street sweepers out on the morning we left town.
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The carpets are so detailed, it’s no wonder they take so long to finish. They’re brilliant.
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Yes, if only we had space for them! My friend Jo has an apartment covered in them…so comfy!
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You wouldn’t want to get a knot!!! That loom is amazing!
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And the warp threads are very fine. It’s knotting more than weaving…imagine each row has hundreds of knots…following a pattern!
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