Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1801
Publication Place
Caucasus (made) -
Subject
Interiors Floor Coverings Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Including warp fringe length: 165cm, Including warp fringe width: 133cm, Including warp fringe length: 66in, Including warp fringe width: 51in, Weight: 12kg
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.72-1972
Record ID
T.72-1972
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1801
Notes
Fragment of a woollen carpet, Caucasus, 1801-1850
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Woven wool, re-knotted Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment of the field of a Caucasian carpet. The field design consists of a dark blue ground with an off-centre red stepped medallion with a dark green ground and a central pink and white rosette; other stylised flowers extend from the rosette and from the border of the inner medallion. At each cardinal point is a large white blossom. The border of both medallions has vestigial hooks. The red medallion is nearly enclosed by four blue diagonal hooked bars with pink and red horned motifs within a central cartouche containing an S-motif. In the two upper corners is a horizontal green bar with a similar cartouche and a S-motif. These are repeated in the same design position towards the bottom of the carpet. Beneath each is most of a red star-like medallion outlined in yellow with the outer side being one straight line. This may indicate that we have the complete width of a design which has been cramped into a small space. In the lower centre is a smaller multi-sided pink star and to either side, another pointed green bar, this time vertical. Elsewhere on the field are small rosettes, botehs, green leaves. WARP: white wool; Z3S; 15-17 threads per inch (61-69 per dm). WEFT: shades of brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after every row of knots; 8 knots per inch (30 to the dm). PILE: wool; 10 original colours and 1 re-knotted colour; dark red, red, orange (re-knotting, tones in well on the back but has changed to orange on the front), yellow, dark green, green, dark blue, blue, pink, dark brown (some areas of dark brown may originally have been purple), white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 60-68 knots per sq. inch (915-1035 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: probably not original: 3 cords overcast in blue wool. END FINISH: missing.
Üretim
Mentioned and illustrated in "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A", by M. Franses and R. Pinner (intro. by Donald King). Hali 1980, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 96, 108, 114 Referred to in "Azerbaijani Carpets in the V & A" by Latif Kerimov. Published International Symposium, Baku, 1983, P. 50, Plate 42 Yetkin (1978) Vol. 1., illus. 39, "Carpet, transitional type, 19th c., also illus. 38, "Carpet, transitional type, late 18th c." Kerimov (1983) illus. 42 attributes this to "Alpan" of the Kuba group, 19th c." Ellis (1975) illus. 17 for modification of stylized floral or geometric forms into animal forms. Franses and Pinner, Hali, Vol. 3, No. 2. (1980) attribute this to Kuba.
