Carpet Fragment
1700-1800
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Carpet fragment, design shows field or main border: dark red ground with angular dark blue blossom on a green stem and enclosing a similarly shaped light yellow, red-brown and green design. Some evidence that the green stem supports a small, five-petalled yellow rosette on each side.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Warp: white cotton; Z5S; depressed; 30 threads per inch (120 per dm, counted as 60 per 5 cm).
Weft: white cotton, Z-spun, unplied, 2 parallel threads per shoot; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 23 knots per inch (90 per dm, counted as 45 per 5 cm).
Pile: wool; 9 colours: red, yellow, light yellow, green, dark blue, dark pink, pink, red-brown, black; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads; 345 knots per sq. inch (5400 per sq. dm).
Side finish: cut.
End finish: cut. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Carpet, Fragment. Carpet fragment, wool knotted pile on cotton foundation, design shows floral motif, Iran, possibly 1700-1800 |
| Physical description | Carpet fragment, design shows field or main border: dark red ground with angular dark blue blossom on a green stem and enclosing a similarly shaped light yellow, red-brown and green design. Some evidence that the green stem supports a small, five-petalled yellow rosette on each side. |
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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 | 1066C-1883 |
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| Record created | September 3, 2007 |
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