Publication Place
Central Asia (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.203-1922
Record ID
T.203-1922
Library Location
Middle East Section
Fiziksel açıklama
bag face (described as in use). WARP: cream wool; Z2S; 23 threads per inch (88 per dm). WEFT: light brown wool; Z spun, apparently unplied and with 2 parallel threads per shoot and 2 shoots after each row of knots; 19 knots per inch (78 per dm). PILE: wool; 5 colours: dark red, red, dark blue, dark brown, cream; asymmetrical knot, open to the right and tied around two warp threads; 219 knots per sq. inch (3432 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: 2 cords overcast with dark red wool. END FINISH: Lower: 2.5 cms. plain weave with cream weft followed by a narrow band of dark blue weft, turned and stitched into place. Upper: incomplete; one row of symmetrical jufti knots in blocks of 6 knots in green, dark red, red and dark blue, one contrasting plus a corroded black; then 1 cm. maximum plain weve with cream weft. DESIGN: Field: three bands each with four rectangles outlined alternately in red and dark red, quartered in dark blue and either dark red or red, with each quarter containing a flowerhead. In the centre of each rectangle is a dark red cross with a hooked outline in white. The rectangles are separated by a) horizontal bands of flowerheads in dark blue alternating with red or white, and by b) vertical bands of a more compressed flowerhead motif. Main border: dark red ground with half-octagons on each side and quartered diamonds along the centre. Inner and Outer border: along both ends the design is as a); along both sides the design is as b). Outermost border: a solid dark red at the top, containing two narrow bands of first, red, brown and dark blue and second, brown and dark blue diagonals. Catalogue Date. 1.2.95
Üretim
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. 302 cf: Tzareva (1984) ill. 56, "Tekke mafrach, 19th century". Azadi (1970-T.T.) ill. 22c "Salor Torba 19th century" Purchased for £2. "wall-bag, Turcoman".
