A kelaghayi is one square of gossamer silk, reeled and woven in Sheki, then carried to Basqal where hand-cut walnut blocks stamp a wax resist across it. Indigo first, then madder rose over the top — which is why the ground settles at wine-plum and the buta lifts out of it in pink.

Colour here is social code rather than taste: bright for the young, dark for married elders, red for brides, black for mourning. A plum-ground scarf is the adult, formal register. This system prints onto that field edge to edge.