Publication Place
Turkey (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Top edge width: 1615mm, Bottom edge width: 1625mm, Weight: 17kg, Proper right length: 2360mm, Proper left length: 2380mm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
1049-1883
Record ID
1049-1883
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Middle East, Carpet; Turkey
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool Cotton
Fiziksel açıklama
Turkish, made at Koomeshah (Kurdish?) 2nd half of the 19th century. Prayer carpet, woven from the point upwards. WARP: white cotton; Z6S; 21 threads per inch (90 per dm). WEFT: white cotton; Z3S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 12 knots per inch (45 per dm). PILE: wool; 14 colours: red, light red, yellow, dark green, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, purple, pink, dark brown, brown, black, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 126 knots per sq. inch (540 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: incomplete but evidence in lower left hand corner of a web of 6 cords overcast with blue wool. END FINISH: Lower: incomplete but evidence of plain weave with blue(wool?) weft-wrapping and then white cotton weft. 2.5 cms. plain weave with white weft and 3 bands with blue (wool?) weft-wrapping and then warp-twining to produce a firm end. DESIGN: Field: red ground with a 4 sided niche and with a partial small niche to either side above a field edging of dark blue flowers. Between the niches are 2 pairs of narrow blue pillars and between the pillars are flowering stems in various colours. A floral plant with stylised blossoms rises to the point of the niche and across it are 3 white horned motifs. The niches are superimposed on a dark blue panel with light green and red tracery. The panel extends into 5 small horned niches below a narrow dark brown panel with a double floral meander. The topmost panel has a dark green ground with large and small blossoms. Below the field is a narrow panel with double floral meander on dark brown and below is a dark green panel with 4 floral clusters. Borders from the centre: (1) red ground with a floral meander on a white stem; (2) dark blue ground with coloured S-motifs alternately large and small - the smaller having split tails and within a diagonal bar and an horizontal white arrow; the larger have a horizontal cartouche with 3 small flowers; (3) red ground with a small meander (4) white ground with large flowering shrubs with a central red carnation and floral motifs to either side; (5) as (3), very narrow across the top; (6) dark blue ground with stylised flowerheads in various colours; (7) as (3) There is a black and blue band across the top and the bottom.
Üretim
carpet fragment, 18th century, Smyrna (Turkey) RP Lt. Col. R. Murdock Smith, Teheran, paid in advance. List of carpets not found: total billed: £38.14.4d. 985-1177 - '83 registered 19/12/83 Letter to Murdock Smith 12/04/83 signed (Wingfield Digby?) "... it is wished that good examples of Carpets of the very earliest manufacture should be procured whenever it may be possible" cf: None with similar structure, i.e cotton warp and weft and low knot count. see working notes.
