Carpet
1996 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Woven wool and cotton carpet.
WARP: white cotton; Z3S3Z; depressed; 30-36 threads per inch (134 per dm).
WEFT: blue cotton; Z3S visible weft; 2 shoots after each row of knots; concealed weft also blue, not possible to analyse. NB: there may be additional concealed wefts but the good condition of the carpet precludes further investigation.
PILE: wool; 14 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, yellow, olive green, dark green, green, green-blue, dark blue, blue , light blue, pink, light brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 warp threads; 248 knots per sq. inch (4355 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH one fine cord oversewn with dark blue wool.
END FINISH: lower 3 cms of plain weave with 5 loose shoots of 2 parallel white cotton wefts with the warps plaited right to left to make a final horizontal cord. Towards the pile are 2 rows of weft wrapping in red/light green and in red/dark blue wool extending on the left to form a 7 cms. maximum plait. Upper: 1.5 cms. of plain weave with 2 parallel white cotton wefts, the outermost thread twined to secure from 3 to 5 warp threads ending in a 5 cms. fringe. Immediately below the fringe is a line of weft wrapping in red and dark yellow wool, and immediately above the pile in red and dark blue, both extending into a 10.5 cms. maximum plait at both sides.
DESIGN: field - dark blue ground. A brown tree rises from a shallow mound. From its mirror-imaged branches grow a profusion of blossoms and small white flowers. The boughs support a blue and dark yellow vase from which more branches and four elaborate blossoms grow. At either side of the trunk stands a decorated blue vase holding mainly red and blue flowers. Beside the mound and the base of the vases grow four white-flowering plants. The spandrels and their half pendants either side of the domed head of the field have a dark green ground with a red and a blue blossom within a red foliate frame; stems with small flowers and leaves fill the rest of the spandrels.
Main border: red ground with floral meander on a dark yellow stem, the larger blossoms are light blue or dark green and the smaller are blue.
Inner and outer borders: white ground with floral meander linking light blue flowers with red botehs. In the centre of the upper outer border is a red inscription in a blue cartouche with the A.H. date 137 (0 or 5) and the words ...
Innermost and outermost borders: a reciprocal 'Y' pattern in dark yellow and dark green is outlined in red.
WARP: white cotton; Z3S3Z; depressed; 30-36 threads per inch (134 per dm).
WEFT: blue cotton; Z3S visible weft; 2 shoots after each row of knots; concealed weft also blue, not possible to analyse. NB: there may be additional concealed wefts but the good condition of the carpet precludes further investigation.
PILE: wool; 14 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, yellow, olive green, dark green, green, green-blue, dark blue, blue , light blue, pink, light brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 warp threads; 248 knots per sq. inch (4355 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH one fine cord oversewn with dark blue wool.
END FINISH: lower 3 cms of plain weave with 5 loose shoots of 2 parallel white cotton wefts with the warps plaited right to left to make a final horizontal cord. Towards the pile are 2 rows of weft wrapping in red/light green and in red/dark blue wool extending on the left to form a 7 cms. maximum plait. Upper: 1.5 cms. of plain weave with 2 parallel white cotton wefts, the outermost thread twined to secure from 3 to 5 warp threads ending in a 5 cms. fringe. Immediately below the fringe is a line of weft wrapping in red and dark yellow wool, and immediately above the pile in red and dark blue, both extending into a 10.5 cms. maximum plait at both sides.
DESIGN: field - dark blue ground. A brown tree rises from a shallow mound. From its mirror-imaged branches grow a profusion of blossoms and small white flowers. The boughs support a blue and dark yellow vase from which more branches and four elaborate blossoms grow. At either side of the trunk stands a decorated blue vase holding mainly red and blue flowers. Beside the mound and the base of the vases grow four white-flowering plants. The spandrels and their half pendants either side of the domed head of the field have a dark green ground with a red and a blue blossom within a red foliate frame; stems with small flowers and leaves fill the rest of the spandrels.
Main border: red ground with floral meander on a dark yellow stem, the larger blossoms are light blue or dark green and the smaller are blue.
Inner and outer borders: white ground with floral meander linking light blue flowers with red botehs. In the centre of the upper outer border is a red inscription in a blue cartouche with the A.H. date 137 (0 or 5) and the words ...
Innermost and outermost borders: a reciprocal 'Y' pattern in dark yellow and dark green is outlined in red.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Woven wool and cotton |
| Brief description | Woven wool and cotton carpet, Kashan, 1996 |
| Physical description | Woven wool and cotton carpet. WARP: white cotton; Z3S3Z; depressed; 30-36 threads per inch (134 per dm). WEFT: blue cotton; Z3S visible weft; 2 shoots after each row of knots; concealed weft also blue, not possible to analyse. NB: there may be additional concealed wefts but the good condition of the carpet precludes further investigation. PILE: wool; 14 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, yellow, olive green, dark green, green, green-blue, dark blue, blue , light blue, pink, light brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 warp threads; 248 knots per sq. inch (4355 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH one fine cord oversewn with dark blue wool. END FINISH: lower 3 cms of plain weave with 5 loose shoots of 2 parallel white cotton wefts with the warps plaited right to left to make a final horizontal cord. Towards the pile are 2 rows of weft wrapping in red/light green and in red/dark blue wool extending on the left to form a 7 cms. maximum plait. Upper: 1.5 cms. of plain weave with 2 parallel white cotton wefts, the outermost thread twined to secure from 3 to 5 warp threads ending in a 5 cms. fringe. Immediately below the fringe is a line of weft wrapping in red and dark yellow wool, and immediately above the pile in red and dark blue, both extending into a 10.5 cms. maximum plait at both sides. DESIGN: field - dark blue ground. A brown tree rises from a shallow mound. From its mirror-imaged branches grow a profusion of blossoms and small white flowers. The boughs support a blue and dark yellow vase from which more branches and four elaborate blossoms grow. At either side of the trunk stands a decorated blue vase holding mainly red and blue flowers. Beside the mound and the base of the vases grow four white-flowering plants. The spandrels and their half pendants either side of the domed head of the field have a dark green ground with a red and a blue blossom within a red foliate frame; stems with small flowers and leaves fill the rest of the spandrels. Main border: red ground with floral meander on a dark yellow stem, the larger blossoms are light blue or dark green and the smaller are blue. Inner and outer borders: white ground with floral meander linking light blue flowers with red botehs. In the centre of the upper outer border is a red inscription in a blue cartouche with the A.H. date 137 (0 or 5) and the words ... Innermost and outermost borders: a reciprocal 'Y' pattern in dark yellow and dark green is outlined in red. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sherkat Saderat Ghali Ltd |
| Production | Kashan; tree of life |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.140-1997 |
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| Record created | October 13, 2005 |
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