Author
Unknown
Publication Place
Iran (made) -
Subject
Textiles Floor Coverings Interiors
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Weight: 16kg, Top edge width: 1165mm, Bottom edge width: 1200mm, Proper right edge length: 2000mm, Proper left edge length: 1960mm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.39-1970
Record ID
T.39-1970
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Woollen carpet, Iran, 19th century
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Woollen knotted pile Cotton Wool Weaving
Fiziksel açıklama
Woollen carpet with field covered with repeating pattern of stars in a lattice on a dark blue ground. There are five small border stripes with rosettes and cone meander in red, pink, yellow, white, pale blue, brown and purple. Warp: White cotton; Z8S; 14 threads per inch (46-52 per dm) Weft: white cotton; Z6S; some brown wool mainly in the centre, Z-spun, unplied; 1 shoot after each row of knots; 9 knots per inch (36 per dm). Pile: wool; 11 colours: red, light red, yellow, green, light green, dark blue, blue, purple, brown, black, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 63 knots per sq. inch (828-936 per sq. dm). Side finish: one cord oversewn with black or brown wool. End finish: missing. Design: Field: dark blue ground with 3 rows and a partial row to each side of 8-pointed stars outlined in light red. Each star is surrounded by 4 segments of a broken octagon. These form a cross of dark blue around each star. The segments have a central outward facing point and these form a diamond shaped motif in the spaces between the bands of stars. Small flowerheads and light red or green single knots fill spaces between motifs. The positioning of the stars and segmented octagons creates a grid pattern of vertical and horizontal lines decorated with small diamonds out of the field. Borders from the centre: (1) dark red ground with red rosettes separated by a line of 3 florets. (2) black ground with a narrow green meander with (sides only) paired leaves and alternately inward and outward facing botehs; (end only) a boteh usually alternating with a blossom. (3) white ground with multi-coloured octagons outlined in black. (4) as (2) (5) yellow ground with angular black meander with alternately blue and light red blossoms.
