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Carpet

Title	Carpet
Publication Place	Caucasus (made) -
Subject	Textiles
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Top edge length: 1250mm, Bottom edge length: 1220mm, Proper right width: 1170mm, Proper left width: 1190mm, Weight: 14.5kg
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	CIRC.379-1923
Record ID	CIRC.379-1923
Library Location	Middle East Section
Notes	1700s, Caucasian; Karadagh
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Wool Weaving
Fiziksel açıklama	Carpet fragment; upper left hand corner WARP: cream, light brown wool sometimes plied together; Z2S; 17 threads per inch (67 per dm); depressed. WEFT: light brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 7 knots per inch (28 per dm). PILE: wool; 8 colours: red, yellow, light yellow, green, blue, dark purple, light purple, cream; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 60 knots per sq. inch (938 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: missing END FINISH: missing DESIGN: red ground with evidence of very large lattice formed by angular dark purple or blue leaves with a central yellow barbed line. The main design element is a red diamond; within it a multi-hooked device in yellow contains a similar, smaller one in blue. The whole has blue horned decoration at the four points and light yellow stylised tulips on the sides and lies on a cream medallion. Within the left hand portions of the lattice are two halves of a stepped concentric lozenge, an animal and S-motifs. Main border: cream ground with leaf and wine glass pattern. Inner border: blue ground with joined single-colour flowerheads. Outer border: incomplete, but with evidence of a yellow ground with flowerheads like the inner border.
Üretim	Armenian. Mentioned in Hali 1980, Vol.3.,No2., p.96,98,114 "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A". by M. Franses & R Pinner (intro by Donald King) cf; Yetkin (1978) Vol.1.,illus. 34, "Carpet, transitional type, 18th c." and with illus.42 for minor borders. NB. illus. 33 for main border. Ellis (1975) illus. 17, "Sunburst carpet, Karabagh, Shusha area. 18th century" and illus. 16 "sunburst carpet, Karabagh, Shusha area? Late 18th c." NB: illus. 15 with depressed warps. Erdmann (1976) illus 105,106. "Caucasus 18th C"

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Carpet

Publication Place Caucasus (made) -

Subject Textiles

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Top edge length: 1250mm, Bottom edge length: 1220mm, Proper right width: 1170mm, Proper left width: 1190mm, Weight: 14.5kg

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID CIRC.379-1923

Record ID CIRC.379-1923

Library Location Middle East Section

Notes 1700s, Caucasian; Karadagh

Malzemeler ve teknikler Wool Weaving

Fiziksel açıklama Carpet fragment; upper left hand corner WARP: cream, light brown wool sometimes plied together; Z2S; 17 threads per inch (67 per dm); depressed. WEFT: light brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 7 knots per inch (28 per dm). PILE: wool; 8 colours: red, yellow, light yellow, green, blue, dark purple, light purple, cream; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 60 knots per sq. inch (938 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: missing END FINISH: missing DESIGN: red ground with evidence of very large lattice formed by angular dark purple or blue leaves with a central yellow barbed line. The main design element is a red diamond; within it a multi-hooked device in yellow contains a similar, smaller one in blue. The whole has blue horned decoration at the four points and light yellow stylised tulips on the sides and lies on a cream medallion. Within the left hand portions of the lattice are two halves of a stepped concentric lozenge, an animal and S-motifs. Main border: cream ground with leaf and wine glass pattern. Inner border: blue ground with joined single-colour flowerheads. Outer border: incomplete, but with evidence of a yellow ground with flowerheads like the inner border.

Üretim Armenian. Mentioned in Hali 1980, Vol.3.,No2., p.96,98,114 "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A". by M. Franses & R Pinner (intro by Donald King) cf; Yetkin (1978) Vol.1.,illus. 34, "Carpet, transitional type, 18th c." and with illus.42 for minor borders. NB. illus. 33 for main border. Ellis (1975) illus. 17, "Sunburst carpet, Karabagh, Shusha area. 18th century" and illus. 16 "sunburst carpet, Karabagh, Shusha area? Late 18th c." NB: illus. 15 with depressed warps. Erdmann (1976) illus 105,106. "Caucasus 18th C"