Author
Unknown
Publication Place
Caucasus (made) -
Subject
Textiles Floor Coverings Interiors
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Weight: 14kg, Top edge width: 1640mm, Bottom edge width: 1585mm, Proper right edge length: 1765mm, Proper left edge length: 1775mm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.277-1966
Record ID
T.277-1966
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Flat weave Caucasian carpet in cotton and wool, predominantly soumak, Caucasus, late 19th century
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Cotton and wool Cotton
Fiziksel açıklama
Flat weave Caucasian carpet, predominantly plain soumak. Made from 6 narrow widths, each approximately 28 cms wide. WARP: white cotton; Z2S; 44-56 threads per inch (200-208 per dm). WEFT: Foundation: white cotton; Z2S; 1 shoot between each row of soumak; 17-18 threads per inch (60 per dm). Pattern: wool and cotton; Z2S; 9 colours: red, yellow, yellow cotton, green, dark blue, blue, purple, dark brown, brown; Weft technique: a variety of weft-wrapping techniques have been used: over 16, back under 8; reverse soumak with float carried at back from motif to motif; upward wrapping; forward under 6, forward over 6, back under 6, forward over 6, forward under 6, etc. SIDE FINISH: returned wefts. END FINISH: all cut apart from one length (lower right) which has ends that have been looped warp ends. DESIGN: decorated in bands: small stepped lozenges, parallel combs joined by a vertical bar, small stepped lozenges, cross with a double outline containing stepped lozenges, geometric S-motifs with a central stepped lozenge, parallel combs joined by a vertical bar, geometric S-motifs with a central stepped lozenge, and a vertical striped bar on small triangular base with larger triangle and comb at the head. The bar has 6 pairs of upwardly diagonal branches. This sequence is repeated once completely except in the second sequence, the S-motif band appears on four strips only, and once more up to the band of crosses. There is a narrow border on all sides of the diagonal stripes on the white ground.
