Carpet Fragment
1700-1800
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Carpet fragment, design shows main field of five narrow bands of left-facing reciprocal dovetailing, each band separated by single line of knots in dark blue or brown; colours from the lowest bands are dark yellow; dark green; dark green-blue, pink. Border fields: dark blue ground with dark yellow rosette within dark blue blossom, Right inner border: yellow ground with apparent dark red and dark green-blue flowerheads on a very dark blue meander, Left outer border: yellow ground with angular shapes in blue and pink.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Warp: white cotton; Z4S; depressed; 30 threads per inch (116 per dm).
Weft: white cotton; Z spun, unplied, 2 parallel threads per shoot; cream wool, Z2S; dark brown wool, Z2S; 2 parallel threads per shoot (this occasionally replaces the cream wool); 3 shoots after each row of knots a) cotton b) wool c) sinuous cotton; 13 knots per inch (53 per dm counted as 10.5 threads per 2 cm).
Pile: wool; 14 colours: dark red, dark yellow, yellow, light yellow, dark green, light green, dark green-blue, light green-blue, very dark blue, dark blue, blue, pink, light pink, brown; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads; 195 knots per sq. inch (307 per sq. dm).
Side finish: cut.
End finish: cut. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Carpet, Fragment. Carpet fragment, wool knotted pile on cotton foundation, striped design with floral borders, Iran, possibly 1700-1800 |
| Physical description | Carpet fragment, design shows main field of five narrow bands of left-facing reciprocal dovetailing, each band separated by single line of knots in dark blue or brown; colours from the lowest bands are dark yellow; dark green; dark green-blue, pink. Border fields: dark blue ground with dark yellow rosette within dark blue blossom, Right inner border: yellow ground with apparent dark red and dark green-blue flowerheads on a very dark blue meander, Left outer border: yellow ground with angular shapes in blue and pink. |
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| Object history | Donated to the V&A by Robert Murdoch Smith in 1883, together with a batch of three other carpet fragments and sixty-five printed cotton specimens from Isfahan, which he sent by post. At this time, it was difficult to purchase historic carpets, which were in great international demand, but fragments could still be bought from carpet-restorers. Murdoch Smith writes: "One of the bits of carpet is I think excellent. Unfortunately I could get no more of it." |
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| Accession number | 1066-1883 |
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| Record created | September 3, 2007 |
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