Carpet
1825-1875 (made)
| Place of origin |
Warp: white cotton; Z6S; 24-26 threads per inch (100 per dm), depressed.
Weft: blue cotton; Z3S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 15 knots per inch (60 per dm)
Pile: wool; 10 colours: dark red, red, orange, yellow, dark green, dark blue, blue, light blue, purple, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads (there are also some symmetrical knots - for example, in the red and yellow outer guard stripe in the lower right hand side); 180-195 knots per sq. inch (3000 per sq. dm). It is difficult to see the colours on the asymmetrical knots because they are around the depressed warp threads.
Side Finish: one cord oversewn with red wool.
End finish: Lower: incomplete but 2.5 cm. of weft-faced plain weave with blue cotton. There are the partial remains of a cord twined through the warp loops. Upper: cut.
Design: Field: dark blue ground with six and a half botehs across the width. The botehs all contain a red floral sprig and each row faces in the alternate direction, having either dark green or blue leaves.
Main border: white ground with red and purple blossoms on a dark blue meandering stem (dark green at the top).
Inner and outer borders: dark blue ground with floral meander.
Innnermost and outermost borders: reciprocal diamond heads in dark blue and blue outlined in red.
Weft: blue cotton; Z3S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 15 knots per inch (60 per dm)
Pile: wool; 10 colours: dark red, red, orange, yellow, dark green, dark blue, blue, light blue, purple, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads (there are also some symmetrical knots - for example, in the red and yellow outer guard stripe in the lower right hand side); 180-195 knots per sq. inch (3000 per sq. dm). It is difficult to see the colours on the asymmetrical knots because they are around the depressed warp threads.
Side Finish: one cord oversewn with red wool.
End finish: Lower: incomplete but 2.5 cm. of weft-faced plain weave with blue cotton. There are the partial remains of a cord twined through the warp loops. Upper: cut.
Design: Field: dark blue ground with six and a half botehs across the width. The botehs all contain a red floral sprig and each row faces in the alternate direction, having either dark green or blue leaves.
Main border: white ground with red and purple blossoms on a dark blue meandering stem (dark green at the top).
Inner and outer borders: dark blue ground with floral meander.
Innnermost and outermost borders: reciprocal diamond heads in dark blue and blue outlined in red.
Object details
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| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on cotton foundation, one of a pair of border carpets or kenare, central field design of packed botehs or paisleys on dark blue ground, Saraband, Iran, 1825-1875 |
| Physical description | Warp: white cotton; Z6S; 24-26 threads per inch (100 per dm), depressed. Weft: blue cotton; Z3S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 15 knots per inch (60 per dm) Pile: wool; 10 colours: dark red, red, orange, yellow, dark green, dark blue, blue, light blue, purple, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads (there are also some symmetrical knots - for example, in the red and yellow outer guard stripe in the lower right hand side); 180-195 knots per sq. inch (3000 per sq. dm). It is difficult to see the colours on the asymmetrical knots because they are around the depressed warp threads. Side Finish: one cord oversewn with red wool. End finish: Lower: incomplete but 2.5 cm. of weft-faced plain weave with blue cotton. There are the partial remains of a cord twined through the warp loops. Upper: cut. Design: Field: dark blue ground with six and a half botehs across the width. The botehs all contain a red floral sprig and each row faces in the alternate direction, having either dark green or blue leaves. Main border: white ground with red and purple blossoms on a dark blue meandering stem (dark green at the top). Inner and outer borders: dark blue ground with floral meander. Innnermost and outermost borders: reciprocal diamond heads in dark blue and blue outlined in red. |
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| Object history | Given by H. L. Lucas Esq. |
| Production | Sarabend: see also T.31-1915 |
| Associated object | |
| Bibliographic reference | Patrice Fontaine, Le tapis persan ou le jardin de l'eternel printemps (Paris: 1990) p.125, pl.VI. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.33-1915 |
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| Record created | September 1, 2005 |
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