Author
Unknown
Publication Place
Central Asia (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 19cm, Width: 55cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.95-1925
Record ID
T.95-1925
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Carpet fragment, 19th century, Central Asia
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Carpet fragment (or small bag face) WARP: white wool; Z2S; 21 threads per inch (86 per dm). WEFT: light brown and red wool; Z spun, unplied; 2 parallel threads per shoot (one of brown and one of red); 2 shoots after each row of knots; 30 knots per inch (112 per dm). PILE: wool; 8 colours: dark red, red, yellow, green, blue, light blue, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 315 knots per sq. inch (4816 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: cut END FINISH: cut DESIGN: Field: four white panels, each containing a stylised plant form. Across the middle of each stem there is a stepped gul. Border: above, below and between these panels (except on the left) there is a red ground border divided into squares and each containing a coloured sprig. Lowere band: incomplete. Date catalogued> 29.6.94
Üretim
The Anglo-Persian Carpet Co., S. Kensington. Purchased as one of seven pieces for a total of £3 "knotted pile wall bag; Ersari" (1925) This is one of "7 interesting little pieces of Turcoman carpet-knotting, good in design, colour and technique"â¦. And one of four "tent-bags unlike any others in the Museum⦠the price for the seven pieces⦠is nominal" Mentioned in "Turkoman Rugs in the V & A", by M. Franses and R. Pinner (intro. by Donald King). Analysis by L. Pinner. Hali 1980, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 303, 315 c.f. Azadi (1970) T.T., ill. 27d., "Yomut Kap, 18th century" Tzareva (1984) ill. 60, "Tekke mafrach, 19th century"
