Carpet Fragment
1550-1600
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Warp: cream silk; Z2S; depressed; 35 threads per inch (140 per dm).
Weft: cream silk; Z spun; unplied; 2 parallel threads to each shoot and 3 shoots after each row of knots; 16 knots per inch (58 per dm).
Pile: wool; 12 colours: dark red, light red, orange, dark yellow, yellow, dark green, green, dark blue, light blue, light brown, black, white; symmetrical knot, open to the right and tied around 2 warp threads; 280 knots per sq. inch (3850 per sq. dm).
NB: report on dyes shows: red = lac, orange = madder, yellow = luteolin.
Side finish: cut.
End finish: cut.
Design: Field: dark red ground with 2 stem systems - a) dark blue and outlined in yellow; b) green and bearing large composite blossoms and flowerheads. Field also contains orange cloud bands and 2 spotted animals.
Weft: cream silk; Z spun; unplied; 2 parallel threads to each shoot and 3 shoots after each row of knots; 16 knots per inch (58 per dm).
Pile: wool; 12 colours: dark red, light red, orange, dark yellow, yellow, dark green, green, dark blue, light blue, light brown, black, white; symmetrical knot, open to the right and tied around 2 warp threads; 280 knots per sq. inch (3850 per sq. dm).
NB: report on dyes shows: red = lac, orange = madder, yellow = luteolin.
Side finish: cut.
End finish: cut.
Design: Field: dark red ground with 2 stem systems - a) dark blue and outlined in yellow; b) green and bearing large composite blossoms and flowerheads. Field also contains orange cloud bands and 2 spotted animals.
Object details
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| Brief description | Middle East, Carpet, Fragment. Carpet fragment, wool knotted pile on silk foundation, design of antlered deer, Chinese kylin, cloudbands, lotus leaves and flowers against red ground, Safavid Iran, 1550-1600 |
| Physical description | Warp: cream silk; Z2S; depressed; 35 threads per inch (140 per dm). Weft: cream silk; Z spun; unplied; 2 parallel threads to each shoot and 3 shoots after each row of knots; 16 knots per inch (58 per dm). Pile: wool; 12 colours: dark red, light red, orange, dark yellow, yellow, dark green, green, dark blue, light blue, light brown, black, white; symmetrical knot, open to the right and tied around 2 warp threads; 280 knots per sq. inch (3850 per sq. dm). NB: report on dyes shows: red = lac, orange = madder, yellow = luteolin. Side finish: cut. End finish: cut. Design: Field: dark red ground with 2 stem systems - a) dark blue and outlined in yellow; b) green and bearing large composite blossoms and flowerheads. Field also contains orange cloud bands and 2 spotted animals. |
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| Object history | Given by Jane Spencer Brunton |
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| Bibliographic reference | Christine Klose, "Imperial Puzzle. Sixteenth-Century Persian Spiral Vine Carpets with Animals", HALI 170 (2011) pp.76-85: fig.17. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 38-1892 |
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| Record created | February 7, 2001 |
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