المؤلف
Unknown
مكان النشر
Caucasus (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Floor Coverings Interiors Tapestry
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Maximum length: 15cm, Minimum length: 14cm, Width: 15cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
T.50-1975
رقم السجل
T.50-1975
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
Fragment of hand knotted carpet of wool, Caucasus, 19th century.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Hand knotted wool Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Left-hand border of a hand knotted carpet of wool. WARP: white wool; Z2S; 18 threads per inch (74 per dm). WEFT: brown wool; Z spun, unplied; 2 parallel threads per shoot; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 15 knots per inch (56 per dm). PILE: wool; 7 colours: red, yellow, dark green, dark blue, light brown, black, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 135 knots per sq. inch (2072 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: Left: one cord oversewn with black wool. Right: cut END FINISH: cut DESIGN: Main border: white ground; green, horizontal bars of pseudo-kufic separate an inwardly hooked, four-lobed motif, all outlined in red. Outer guard stripe: black ground with columbn of multi-coloured "figures of eight".
Üretim
(Retirement) Gift from Mr. Benardout of the Anglo-Persian Carpet Co., South Kensington Mentioned and illustrated in "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A", by M. Franses and R. Pinner (intro. by Donald King). Hali 1980, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 96 "fragment of a border, Kufic, Caucasian, 19th c." "I write to thank you most cordially for your kindness in allowing the Museum to select from your stock such carpet fragments as will be useful for teaching purposes and for showing designs so far unrepresented in our collection".