المؤلف
Unknown (designed and made by)
تاريخ النشر
1800
مكان النشر
Caucasus (made) Iran (made) -
الموضوع
Arms & Armour Animals and Wildlife Transport Equestrian Equipment
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Maximum length: 144cm, Minimum length: 58cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
145-1884
رقم السجل
145-1884
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1800
ملاحظات
Middle East, Carpet, Bag. Pair of joined saddle bags, wool knotted pile and soumak flatweave, NW Iran or Caucasus, 1800-1880
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool Cotton
Fiziksel açıklama
Saddlebag; countered soumak with the reverse of the bag in knotted pile WARP: white cotton; Z3S; 13 threads per inch (48 per dm). WEFT: front of each panel: foundation weft of blue wool; Z2S; sometimes one shoot sometimes 2 shoots, usually after every row of soumak; pattern weft: wool; 10 colours: red, light red, orange, dark green, green, dark blue, light blue, dark brown, black, white; sequence: over 2 warp threads and back under one; 13 rows of soumak per inch (54 per dm). Back of each panel: white wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 6 knots per inch (23 per dm). PILE: wool; 8 colours: dark red, red, light red, orange, dark green, light green, blue, black; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 39 knots per sq. inch (621 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: soumak panels: 3 cords oversewn with?; folded to form the bag and oversewn in place. END FINISH: plain weave turned and stitched into place. DESIGN: 1. Soumak panels: field: blue ground filled with three complete stepped crosses and five partial ones. Inner border: reciprocal red/green trefoil. Middle border: red ground with geometric meander with triangles. Outer border: red ground with pseudo-kufic design in white. The fastening edge has seven blocks of plain weave (red, blue and green) separated by slits for fastening. 2. Reverse, piled panels: field: red ground with a pair of red and a pair of light red blossoms on green stems in one panel and blue stems in the other. Border: reciprocal horn in green/dark red outlined in red. 3. Plain weave centre: bands: the central band is brown and is flanked by red, dark brown, orange/yellow, blue and green bands.