مكان النشر
Turkey (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Weight: 14kg, Top edge width: 1180mm, Bottom edge width: 1180mm, Proper right edge length: 1850mm, Proper left edge length: 1850mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
163-1908
رقم السجل
163-1908
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
1500-1600s, Turkish
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Turkish, 16th century Ottoman court carpet; fragment; part of field and left-hand border. WARP: green wool; S4Z; 20 threads per inch (79 per dm); depressed. WEFT: very light brown (wool?); S spun, unplied; 3 or 4 parallel threads per shoot; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 11 knots per inch (43 per dm). PILE: wool; 6 colours: red , yellow, green, blue , very light blue, brown, cream; asymmetrical knot tied around 2 threads and open to the left; 110 knots per sq. inch (1699 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: missing END FINISH: missing DESIGN: field: red ground with blue central rosette surrounded by four flowers and four palmettes; this arrangement reappears, in part, in the present corners of this fragment. Elsewhere there are swirling yellow stems and narrow green leaves in regular curving arabesques, enclosing further palmettes and rosettes that are predominantly green and bearing small blue flowers and larger blue rosettes. Main border: left-hand side and lower only. Red ground with a yellow meandering stem along the outer edge from which spring a profusion of flowers and leaves - blue carnations rising from a green fruit-like motif, alternating with tall, slim yellow tulips with outer blue petals. Inner border: (as above). Green ground with two rows of off-set and opposing pink flowers, halved. There is evidence of this border along the upper edge of the field. Outer border: evidence that it was similar to the inner border.