Publication Place
Asia (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Maximum length: 69cm, Minimum length: 54cm, Maximum width: 112cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
273C-1906
Record ID
273C-1906
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
knotted pile, 1800s, Turcoman; Yomud
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
WARP: brown wool, possibly hair; Z2S; 17 threads to the inch (70 per dm) WEFT: light brown wool; Z spun, unplied with 2 parallel threads per shoot and 2 shoots after each row of knots; 17 knots to the inch (68 per dm). PILE: wool; 8 colours: red, light orange, green, dark blue, blue, purple, dark brown, cream; a symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 146 knots to the sq. inch (2380 to the sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: both sides have 2 cords overcase with light purple wool. END FINISH: lower end incomplete with 2.5 cms. plain weave with light brown weft turned and stitched in place. Upper end has one row of stitching in light purple wool the 7 shoots of green wool followed by 2.5 cms. of plain weave with light brown weft turned and stitched in place. DESIGN: field has a cream ground; there are nine vertical lines largely in purple and they rest on a saw-toothed diagonal lattice. The bottom left/top right lines are in purple, the others in red, dark blue and green. Within the lattice the bar bears a cross-shaped motif with a green or blue cross above and below a light orange octagonal centre. The main border extends along the sides and lower part only; the lower border and the lower one-third of the sides have a blue ground and the upper sides a green ground. Red, stepped lozenges alternate along the sides with hooked bars. The bars are part light orange and part cream. On the lower border the motif changes to opposing arrowheads in either cream or light orange. The inner and outer borders are along the sides and lower part only and have a reciprocal "running dog" pattern in cream and purpole with outer guard stripes in cream and blue. The upper border lies along the top of the five-sided field and the side borders. It has a purple ground filled with narrow horizontal lozenges in contrasting colours. The border is divided vertically by the central line which extends beyond the field to the tip of the pile.
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, 308, 315 cf: see 273-1906
