Publication Place
Caucasus (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Proper right length: 2200mm, Proper right length: 2135mm, Bottom edge width: 1150mm, Top edge width: 1090mm, Weight: 15kg
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
57-1880
Record ID
57-1880
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Middle East, Carpet; 1800s, Caucasian; Kuba
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool Weaving
Fiziksel açıklama
Talish or Daghestan 19th century carpet WARP: cream and brown wool sometimes plied together; Z2S; 15 threads to the inch (60 per dm). WEFT: wool; light brown in lower half and brown in upper half; Z2S; 2 shoots, sometimes 3, after each row of knots; 7 and a half knots to the inch (30 per dm). PILE: wool; 9 colours: red, yellow, green, light green, green/blue, blue, light purple, dark brown, cream; symmetrical knot tied around 2 warp threads (NB: occasdional part rows of double knotting, eg in the main border cream ground above lowest left pair of dark brown squares: together with weft inserts they control the shape); 56 or 60 knots to the sq. inch (900 or 960 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: both sides have a web of 3 cords worked in blocks of dark brown, yuellow and red wool, 24 cms. max to 5 cms. minimum. END FINISH: lower: incomplete; 4 cms. max plain weave, first 2 cms. in cream wool and then in light brown weft with 2 shoots of light brown and then cream dividing the bands. Some evidence of twisted warp loops of 2 cms. Upper: incomplete; 3.5 cms. max. of plain weave in brown wool. DESIGN: field: dark brown ground with 13 bands of alternately four or five offset floral sprigs, the flowers heart-shaped and in various colours; the geometric stems and leaves in alternate bands of red and green, sometimes linked horizontally to form a band of lattice. A reciprocal diamond-head pattern in cream on dark brown edges the field. Main border: cream ground with large rosettes in various colours separated by two pairs of small squares each dissected into eight, mostly brown, some blue, the lower green and red pairs having a floral appearance. Inner and outer border: red ground with, mostly, two-colour, eight-petalled squares in a line. In each side border there are additional floral and geometric motifs together with four animal figures - two are horned.
Üretim
Talish or Daghestan cf: Bennett (1981) illus. 180 "although this rug... has a...field... of tiny flowers, the borders are more typically Talish... probably late 19th or early 20th century". Kerimov (1983) Plate 33, "Talish" Referred to in "Azerbaijani Carpets in the V & A" by Latif Kerimov. publ. International Symposium, Baku, 1983. P. 41, plate 33. Mentioned and illustrated x 3, Hali 1980 Vol.3, No. 2, p.95, 102, 103, 112, 113, 114, in "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A" by M. Franses & R Pinner (intro by Donald King), analyses by Jackie Stanger. Also see Hali, 50, p.32) cf: T57-1975
