Publication Place
Caucasus (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 273cm, Maximum width: 89cm, Minimum width: 86.5cm, Weight: 9kg
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
61-1880
Record ID
61-1880
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
1800s, Caucasian; Gabistan
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wool Cotton
Fiziksel açıklama
WARP: white wool; Z3S; 16 threads per inch (61 per dm). WEFT: white cotton; Z3S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 14 knots per inch (56 per dm) PILE: wool; 11 colours: dark red, red, yellow, dark green, green, blue, light blue, pink, light brown, black, white; symmetrical knot tied around two threads; 112 knots per sq. inch (1708 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: web of 4 cords overcast with blue cotton. END FINISH: Lower: immediately below the pile is 0.5 cms. plainweave with blue cotton followed by an incomplete fringe with a max. of 7 rows of knots 4 cms. long. Upper: one row of countered soumak in dark brown followed by 1 cm. plainweave with blue cotton weft. Incomplete fringe as Lower. DESIGN: Field: black ground with toothed lattice in yellow outlined in red and containing stylised floral motifs. Main border: white ground with 'crab' pattern in various colours. Innermost border: white ground with hexagons, each containing a flowerhead in various colours. Inner and Outer borders; divided by blue diagonal lines. The intervening spaces are filled with blocks of diagonal lines in two contrasting colours. Catalogue date: 27.5.97
Üretim
Referred to in: "Azerbaijani Carpets in the V & A" by Latif Kerimov, pub. International Symposium, Baku, 1983. Pg.18, pl. 10. c.f. Bennett (1981) illus. 314 and 222. "Kuba, probably late 19th c. "typical Shirvan field design.... probably from the Kuba area, second half 19th c." Schurmann (1964) illus. 99 and 100 "Kuba". mentioned in "Caucasian Rugs in the V & A" by M. Franses and R. Pinner (intro by Donald King), analyses by Jackie Stanger. Hali 1980, Vol.3, No. 2, p. 107, 113, 114.
