المؤلف
Unknown
مكان النشر
Caucasus (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Floor Coverings Interiors
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Length: 64cm
(maximum), Length: 60cm
(minimum), Width: 88cm
(maximum), Width: 83cm
(minimum)
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
CIRC.160-1932
رقم السجل
CIRC.160-1932
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
Carpet fragment of wool and cotton, Caucasus, early 20th century
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool and cotton Wool Cotton
Fiziksel açıklama
Carpet fragment of wool and cotton, soumak single, with diagonal and vertical wrapping. WARP: white and light brown wool with pink wool in parts as if red dye had bled into it; Z3S; 18 threads per inch (72 per dm). WEFT: Foundation: white cotton; Z2S; 1 shoot after pattern weft. Pattern: wool and cotton; 14 colours: dark red, red, orange, olive green, green, light green, dark blue, light blue, purple (faded), pink, brown, light brown, black/dark brown, white cotton; Sequence: over 4 warp threads and back behind 2. SIDE FINISH: returned wefts. END FINISH: cut. DESIGN: the whole is filled by two dragons, side by side, complete except for the tips of their ears, on a dark red ground. The left-hand dragon is dark blue, outlined, doubly castellated in green. The right-hand one is white, outlined in light blue. Both dragons contain many bands of left-facing, angular S-motifs. The four panels around which the dragons curve contain three figures waisted like hourglasses. Zili Iverneh design.
Üretim
Purchased from Anglo Persian Carpet co. South Kensington for 12/6d. "2 Sumaq mat; Caucasian: 19th cent." This, one of ... and "more expensive, is of a well-known but rare kind and affords a useful example of sumaq qeaving in small compass". CECT to HAK "These small pieces... will give us some useful frames for schools and purchase... at these nominal prices is recommended." HAK to the Director.