المؤلف
Unknown
مكان النشر
Caucasus (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Floor Coverings Interiors
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Weight: 15kg, Bottom edge width: 1000mm, Top edge width: 875mm, Proper right maximum length: 2580mm, Proper left maximum length: 2520mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
T.31-1970
رقم السجل
T.31-1970
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
Woollen carpet, Caucasus, Russia, 19th century
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Knotted woollen pile Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Woollen Caucasian carpet with blue hooked medallion, arrow heads on a long pole and blue stepped corner pieces on a red ground, covered with scattered motifs (animals, etc.) Warp: white, brown and white/brown plied together wool; Z2S; 13 threads per inch (50 per dm). Weft: red wool; Z-spun, unplied; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 10 knots per inch (38 knots per dm). Pile: wool; 7 colours: red, orange, dark blue, blue, dark brown, black, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 65 knots per sq. inch (950 per sq. dm). Side finish: one thick cord, overcast to produce a chevron pattern in orange/white and black/white (lower part only). End finish: Lower: total length (2.5 cm) made-up of 1.5 cm. plain weave in dark brown, orange, blue and then orange weft; (1.5 cm) band of dark brown and white weft floats forming a small diaper pattern; evidence of a further band of orange plain weave and a fringe in which some weft loops remain max. 8 cm). Upper: total length 12.5 cm. made up of bands of plain weave in red, blue, red alternating with 2 bands of dark brown and white floats (see lower end) and one of brown and red floats; evidence of a final band of orange and warp threads grouped in fours and secured with a single knot (8 cm max). Design: Field: red ground with central, blue, hooked rectangle with arrow-like extensions and containing red or orange arrows. With dark blue stepped spandrels the outline of which continues as a zigzag along the sides of the field. There is a small flowerhead in each triangle. Gulls, rosettes, birds and animals are scattered across the ground, especially in the spandrels. Main border: white ground with geometric meander enclosing squares and squared flowers. Inner and outer borders: red ground with single botehs along a central black line.
Üretim
no cf. available but note: Housego (1978) illus. 37 of this piece., "a curious rug...Sava area, North Iran. The quality of the wool indicates this latter region" (ie. North Iran) "as do the border designs;. It may be the work of the Baghdadi Shahsavan of Sava". Rec. Dame Ada Macnaughten (deceased) via Pickering, Kenyon & Co., 6 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, WC2. Bequest RP 69/3074A
