Carpet
1850-1875
| Place of origin |
Warp: brown; wool; Z3S; not depressed; 16 knots per sq. inch (64 per dm).
Weft: white; cotton; Z3S; 3 shoots per row (occasionally 4); 8 rows of knots per sq. inch (29 per dm).
Pile: wool; red, yellow, green, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, pink, dark brown, light brown, and white (11 colours); symmetrical.
Side finish: 2 cords overcast with light brown cotton.
End finish:
Lower: incomplete; 2cm plain weave with light brown cotton.
Upper: incomplete but evidence of 2.5cm plain weave with white wool above 1 row of weft twining of white wool.
Design:
Field: 2 light brown elongated hexagons in a row, each with a central lozenge, are filled with dark vertical stylised stems with diamonds and triangles; each lozenge has a white ground with a vertical and horizontal bar on which are a number of rosettes reduced to octagons with 2 pairs of decorated leaves lying diagonal. The sides of the field between the hexagons are 2 halves of this lozenge with a quarter at each corner.
Inner border: white ground with blue meander bearing square blossoms alternating with rosettes and with square and round buds.
Middle border: an elaborate reciprocal trefoil in dark blue and light blue. In the lower part the light blue has faded.
Outer border: unpatterned, light brown, probably undyed.
Weft: white; cotton; Z3S; 3 shoots per row (occasionally 4); 8 rows of knots per sq. inch (29 per dm).
Pile: wool; red, yellow, green, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, pink, dark brown, light brown, and white (11 colours); symmetrical.
Side finish: 2 cords overcast with light brown cotton.
End finish:
Lower: incomplete; 2cm plain weave with light brown cotton.
Upper: incomplete but evidence of 2.5cm plain weave with white wool above 1 row of weft twining of white wool.
Design:
Field: 2 light brown elongated hexagons in a row, each with a central lozenge, are filled with dark vertical stylised stems with diamonds and triangles; each lozenge has a white ground with a vertical and horizontal bar on which are a number of rosettes reduced to octagons with 2 pairs of decorated leaves lying diagonal. The sides of the field between the hexagons are 2 halves of this lozenge with a quarter at each corner.
Inner border: white ground with blue meander bearing square blossoms alternating with rosettes and with square and round buds.
Middle border: an elaborate reciprocal trefoil in dark blue and light blue. In the lower part the light blue has faded.
Outer border: unpatterned, light brown, probably undyed.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Carpet, wool knotted pile on wool warp and cotton weft, elongated medallion design with plain beige borders, Hamadan or Sarab region, Iran, possibly 1850-1875 |
| Physical description | Warp: brown; wool; Z3S; not depressed; 16 knots per sq. inch (64 per dm). Weft: white; cotton; Z3S; 3 shoots per row (occasionally 4); 8 rows of knots per sq. inch (29 per dm). Pile: wool; red, yellow, green, light green, dark blue, blue, light blue, pink, dark brown, light brown, and white (11 colours); symmetrical. Side finish: 2 cords overcast with light brown cotton. End finish: Lower: incomplete; 2cm plain weave with light brown cotton. Upper: incomplete but evidence of 2.5cm plain weave with white wool above 1 row of weft twining of white wool. Design: Field: 2 light brown elongated hexagons in a row, each with a central lozenge, are filled with dark vertical stylised stems with diamonds and triangles; each lozenge has a white ground with a vertical and horizontal bar on which are a number of rosettes reduced to octagons with 2 pairs of decorated leaves lying diagonal. The sides of the field between the hexagons are 2 halves of this lozenge with a quarter at each corner. Inner border: white ground with blue meander bearing square blossoms alternating with rosettes and with square and round buds. Middle border: an elaborate reciprocal trefoil in dark blue and light blue. In the lower part the light blue has faded. Outer border: unpatterned, light brown, probably undyed. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Vincent J. Robinson & Co., 34 Wigmore Street, London. |
| Bibliographic reference | Raoul E. Tschebull, "Persian Village Rugs. Sarab", Hali 79 (February-March 1995) pp.89-97 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 395-1880 |
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| Record created | August 20, 2007 |
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