Author
Unknown
Publication Place
Caucasus (made) -
Subject
Textiles Floor Coverings Interiors
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Weight: 19kg, Top edge width: 1160mm, Bottom edge width: 1225mm, Proper right edge length: 3370mm, Proper left edge length: 3440mm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.30-1970
Record ID
T.30-1970
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Woollen carpet runner, Caucasus, Russia, 19th century
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Knotted woollen pile, with cotton Wool Cotton
Fiziksel açıklama
Caucasian carpet of wool with stepped medallions in dark blue, filled with coloured, stylised rosettes, linked in staggered rows on a wine-red ground. Border of naturalistic flower bunches on black background. Guard stripes have angular meanders of a mid-blue ground. Warp: white wool; Z2S; 16-17 threads per inch (62-67 per dm). Weft: white cotton; Z3S; 2 shoots of weft after each row of knots; 8-9 knots per inch (34-38 per dm). Pile: wool; 17 colours: dark red, orange, light orange, dark yellow, light yellow, dark green, green, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, light purple, pink, brown, light brown, black, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; average of 70 knots per sq. inch (average of 1163 per sq. dm). Side finish: 3 cords overcast with shades of brown wool. End finish: Both: 3 cm plain weave with white cotton turned and stitched in place. Design: Field: dark blue ground filled with multi-coloured rosettes and geometric motifs; these lie beneath a vertical broad dark red band outlined in blue which extends towards the sides five times. Within each of these crosses is a serrated dark blue medallion, also with rosettes, that extends sideways and lengthways to link the five together. Main border: black ground with red or pink fruit-like blossoms and leaves. Inner and outer borders: blue ground with angular floral meander.
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. 95, 101, 114 cf: Bennett (1981) illus. 135 "Lampa - Karabagh, late 19th/early 20th century". NB. minor borders and a V & A reference - also to illus. 124. Schurmann (1974) illus. 32, "Karabagh... probably produced in Channik". NB. minor border; illus. 40, Karabagh, Shusha, NB. minor borders. Kerimov and others (1984) illus. 4. "Achma - Yumma, from Shusha, early 20th century". ["achma" and "yumma" translated as 'open' and 'closed'] Received from Dama Ada Manaughten (deceased) via. Pickering, Kenyon & Co., 6 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, WC2 Bequest RP 69/3074A
