Dragon Kuba rugs and carpets

These were  at one time known as Armenian dragon carpets and are the earliest surviving Caucasian weaves. Opinion differs on their age, some experts place them as early as the thirteenth century but could be no earlier than the sixteenth century. Most of the dragon Kuba rugs and carpets seem to come from the area of the Caucasus known as Karabagh or even eastern Anatolia, but it seems likely that there were manufactured by the Armenian people.