Publication Place
Central Asia (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 48cm, Width: 118.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
411QQ-1880
Record ID
411QQ-1880
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
1800s, Central Asian
İlişki
Vincent Robinson
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool
Fiziksel açıklama
tent bag face WARP: light grey wool; Z2S; 18 threads per inch (74 per dm). WEFT: light brown wool; Z spun, unplied; 2 parallel threads per shoot; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 17 knots per inch (69 per dm). PILE: wool, 7 colours: dark red, red, green, dark blue, blue, dark brown, cream; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 161 knots per sq. inch (2553 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: one cord oversewn with dark red wool. END FINISH: Lower: plain weave is turned under and sewn into place. Upper: 1 cm. of plain weave with red wool wefts. Between the pile and plain weave is a band of knots tied around 4 threads in multi-coloured wool from which a fringe may have hung. DESIGN: field: dark red ground; two bands of three white ground guls each outlined in green along top left/bottom right quarters and in dark blue along top right and bottom left. Inner quadrants in dark red (upper right and lower left) and in dark blue or green for opposite pair. Field of centreal, elongated shape is dark red with upper and lower blue semi-circles filled with light red. In one full band of two half bands (above and below) are elongated, double-crossed motifs with cream horns on uprights and horizontals. Main border: dark red ground with cream or light red horned rectangles (on sides) or multi-sided (top and bottom) containing two coloured, eight-petalled flowerheads. Figures interspersed with tiny cream florets. Guard stripe: small cream rectangles with dark red star alternating top, bottom and left with chequered rectangles in two colours: on right, each third rectangle is self-coloured dark red. Date catalogued: 9.8.94
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, 306, 315 cf: Sianwosch Azadi (1975) Karoly Gombos (1975) Elena Tzareva (1984) for details see notes on 411QQ-1880
