Publication Place
Central Asia (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Maximum length: 306.5cm, Minimum length: 301cm, Maximum width: 224cm, Minimum width: 222cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.69-1923
Record ID
T.69-1923
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
1800s, Turcoman; Tekke
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Carpet WARP: white wool; Z2S; 19 per inch (73 per dm). NB: the warp threads are reduced in number in the lowest part of the plain weave. WEFT: light brown wool; Z-spun, unplied; 1 shoot after each row of knots; 15 knots per inch (58 per dm). PILE: wool; 5 colours: dark red, red, dark blue, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads with 2 symmetrical knots per row on the extreme right hand edge; 142 knots per sq. inch (2117 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: 1 cord oversewn with dark blue wool END FINISH: Lower 5 cms. plain weave with white woollen weft; the lowest two wefts are thick cables. The lower half is undecorated but above is a woven band of geometric motifs in red and blue and above this band are 4 shoots of red weft and then 6 of white before the pile begins. A fringe of 25.5 cms is made of 4 looped warp threads Z-twisted. Upper: 5 cms plain weave with white woollen weft, with a narrow band of red woollen weft in the lower part. At the upper edge there is a very thick weft cable around which the warp threads are knotted to form a fringe, max. 28 cms. long. 12 warp threads retied into a single knot and twisted together. DESIGN: Field: dark red ground, 10 bands of 4 inner and outer quartered guls, the quartering extending to form a dark blue grid throughout the field. There are 9 and 2 half bands of 3 and 2 half secondary guls with star-shaped centres, the guls linked vertically by two red, white and blue small diamonds. Main border: Dark red ground with red hooked crosses within alternating white and dark blue octagons flaring outwards in the reverse colour. Down the sides these rectangles are divided by the same range of geometric bands down both borders. The rectangles in the lower and upper borders are divided by identical diamond patterned stripes. Inner and outer borders: dark red ground forming reciprocal pairs of horns with those in dark red, red, dark blue and white, all interspersed with tiny white florets with red centres. Upper and lower end panels: dark red ground with a band of eight double, vertically-linked lozenges with serrated parallel sides in dark blue or white enclosing a red diamond. The double lozenges are divided by a narrow row of ten (12 in the upper panel) white florets divided in two by a pair of dark red horns. Date catalogued: 2.4.96
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, 304, 315 cf: Bogolynbov (1973) ill. 11, "Antique Merv". Editor JMA Thompson adds: "This is a classical example of a Tekke carpet". Azadi (1970) (T.T.), ill. 4. "Tekke, 19th century". Azadi (1975) ill. 4, "Tekke, first half 18th century" NB: K knot rows on both sides. Also ill. 3 "Tekke, 18th century or earlier". (?!) Gombos (1975) ill. 6 "Tekke carpet, first half 19th century" also ill. 3, "Tekke carpet, 18th-19th century". Purchase £110 from A D Cane, Wigmore Street, London 1923. from Mr Clinton Bond's collection, Quetta, Beluchistan. ".. undoubtedly, it may be regarded as the best of the large Turcoman carpets in that collection (Clinton Bond).. it was offered to the Museum at a specially reduced price of £110."
