Carpet
1625-1650 (made)
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Wool carpet woven in 9 colours: aubergine, blue, blue-green, brown, green, ivory, pink, pink-red, blue red.
Design: double niche with hanging lamps in central field, border filled with sequence of cartouches and star-panels.
In the central field, two spandrels form mirroring arches at top and bottom, each filled with blue foliate scrollwork on a red ground. A lamp hangs in each archway.
Design: double niche with hanging lamps in central field, border filled with sequence of cartouches and star-panels.
In the central field, two spandrels form mirroring arches at top and bottom, each filled with blue foliate scrollwork on a red ground. A lamp hangs in each archway.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Wool knotted pile on wool foundation, symmetric knot.
Warp: wool, ivory colour, Z2S, S-ply (Z-spin), slightly depressed. 18 knots to the inch; (8 per cm.)
Weft: red wool; 2 shoots, 10 per inch (4 per cm).
Pile: wool
Knot: Turkish; 90 knots per sq. inch
Ends: remains of over 2" of web in green wool
Sides: 2 cords woven with white wool, oversewn together in red wool |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool foundation, double niche 'Transylvanian' design with hanging lamps, possibly Ushak or Bergama, Ottoman Turkey, 1625-1650 |
| Physical description | Wool carpet woven in 9 colours: aubergine, blue, blue-green, brown, green, ivory, pink, pink-red, blue red. Design: double niche with hanging lamps in central field, border filled with sequence of cartouches and star-panels. In the central field, two spandrels form mirroring arches at top and bottom, each filled with blue foliate scrollwork on a red ground. A lamp hangs in each archway. |
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| Gallery label | Old label:
This 17th century Turkish carpet belongs to a group commonly called Transylvanian carpets because large quantities of them have been found decorating churches in the Transylvanian region of Romania. The carpet narrows toward the top which suggests that the warp threads were, accidentally, more closely spaced around the upper beam of the loom than they were around the lower beam.
The weavers of this carpet were knotting the border designs by copying a drawing which showed only a straight section of the repeating pattern. It was simple to weave this along the lower borders and then begin it again for the sides, but they had to truncate the side pattern in mid-motif once the field design had been completed. Carpets in which the borders have been designed to flow around the corners were woven from more detailed, and therefore expensive, designs.
Due to age, there is a cloudy film on the inside of this glass; it is not harmful to the carpet. |
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| Accession number | 302-1894 |
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| Record created | June 15, 2004 |
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