While studying the Azerbaijani culture and art, we should turn to various sources of scientific significance. These sources often consist of old manuscripts, publications, artists' paintings, or historical photographs. There are similarities between household items and clothing used in everyday life by both Azerbaijanis and numerous ethnic groups living in the territory of Azerbaijan, there are also many differences in these aspects. Serious steps taken at the beginning of the 20^th century in the field of studying and systematizing this rich culture are associated with the names of foreign ethnographers, art critics, and historians who came to Azerbaijan. The information obtained from all fields of art proves once again that people living in the territory of Azerbaijan effectively and creatively used the vegetation and natural resources of this fertile geographical area, which they inhabited since ancient times. Today, cotton, silk, and wool fabrics, clothes and carpets produced in region, adorn museums not only in Azerbaijan, but also in other countries. Although in all periods of history they have been influenced by various influences in accordance with the new requirements and tastes of a given time, nevertheless they have preserved their national identity to this day, retaining their patterns, styles and technological features. Azerbaijani carpets and examples of the local folk art, stored in museums in Iran, Turkey, the USA, Russia, Germany as well as many other countries, have been exported from the country since the Middle Ages, mainly for commercial purposes or as gifts. At the same time, carpets from Azerbaijan are often called “Caucasian”, and carpets from Tabriz – “Iranian”. Currently, prayer rugs (known as Persian carpets) stored in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, were mainly obtained from war lootings or taxes. As shown in some foreign sources, it is assumed that before about 1500 AD the repeated patterns of carpets depicted in oriental medieval miniatures were borrowed from carpets similar to Anatolian carpets. If Persian carpets in the miniatures reflect Anatolian motifs and carpet designs, then we could admit that these palace carpets are part of the Turkish cultural heritage.