Carpet
1800s (made)
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Carpet, Prayer Carpet, hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and weft, Turkish, Ldik, 19th century
The carpet has been cut down the centre and rejoined; at least 4" of the width is missing.
Length: 6' 1" (185.5 cms)
Width: 3' 32" (100 cms)
WARP: white wool; Z2S; 16 threads per inch (67 per dm).
WEFT: light brown wool; Z spun, unplied; every so often there is a wedge of one shoot with 2 parallel threads to even up the tension; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 12 knots per inch (42 per dm).
PILE: wool; 11 colours: red, light red, yellow, green, blue, light blue, purple (faded to brown); light purple (faded); pink, dark brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 96 knots per sq. inch (1407 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: missing. Two cords overcast with dark red wool have been added.
END FINISH: missing.
DESIGN: described as woven: Field: in three parts (a) lower: red ground with multi-crenellation at the top with two large downward arrowheads filled largely with light purple with a hooked and horned cross with a blue rosette on a light red ground at the very top. There are four partial arrowheads pointing upwards - the central two abutting. Five tulips are suspended from the five crenellation points; they are on blue stalks and have red centres; two tulips are blue, three are dark brown. (b) Centre: red ground with one yellow S-motif in lower left and a row of small flowers springing from both sides and from the niche, which is stepped and outlined in yellow with a multi-coloured band which extends round the panel in green and then light blue and a second band of purple, third band of blue and a fourth of red which is hooked at every corner. (c) Upper: blue ground with, at the top, a pair of multi-coloured carnations on long pink stems and below, a pair of large light red serrated leaves and a pair of purple (all on diagonals); these four leaves enclose two small blue rosettes and a cluster of flowerheads. There are similar rosettes and clusters elsewhere on the field. Between(a) and (b) there is a band with a red floral meander on a green ground.
Main border: yellow ground with large rosettes with quartered cnetres alternating with leaves on a right-angled stem which frames a lilly. These two motifs are divided by a bar with an inward facing arrowhead at each end, between which are three small flowers.
Inner and outer border: floral meander on green stem; inner has purple ground and outer has pink ground.
Innermost border: light blue ground with alternating red and dark brown angular S-motifs.
Catalogue Date: 26.4.95
The carpet has been cut down the centre and rejoined; at least 4" of the width is missing.
Length: 6' 1" (185.5 cms)
Width: 3' 32" (100 cms)
WARP: white wool; Z2S; 16 threads per inch (67 per dm).
WEFT: light brown wool; Z spun, unplied; every so often there is a wedge of one shoot with 2 parallel threads to even up the tension; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 12 knots per inch (42 per dm).
PILE: wool; 11 colours: red, light red, yellow, green, blue, light blue, purple (faded to brown); light purple (faded); pink, dark brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 96 knots per sq. inch (1407 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: missing. Two cords overcast with dark red wool have been added.
END FINISH: missing.
DESIGN: described as woven: Field: in three parts (a) lower: red ground with multi-crenellation at the top with two large downward arrowheads filled largely with light purple with a hooked and horned cross with a blue rosette on a light red ground at the very top. There are four partial arrowheads pointing upwards - the central two abutting. Five tulips are suspended from the five crenellation points; they are on blue stalks and have red centres; two tulips are blue, three are dark brown. (b) Centre: red ground with one yellow S-motif in lower left and a row of small flowers springing from both sides and from the niche, which is stepped and outlined in yellow with a multi-coloured band which extends round the panel in green and then light blue and a second band of purple, third band of blue and a fourth of red which is hooked at every corner. (c) Upper: blue ground with, at the top, a pair of multi-coloured carnations on long pink stems and below, a pair of large light red serrated leaves and a pair of purple (all on diagonals); these four leaves enclose two small blue rosettes and a cluster of flowerheads. There are similar rosettes and clusters elsewhere on the field. Between(a) and (b) there is a band with a red floral meander on a green ground.
Main border: yellow ground with large rosettes with quartered cnetres alternating with leaves on a right-angled stem which frames a lilly. These two motifs are divided by a bar with an inward facing arrowhead at each end, between which are three small flowers.
Inner and outer border: floral meander on green stem; inner has purple ground and outer has pink ground.
Innermost border: light blue ground with alternating red and dark brown angular S-motifs.
Catalogue Date: 26.4.95
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and weft |
| Brief description | 1700-1800s, Turkish; Ladik |
| Physical description | Carpet, Prayer Carpet, hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and weft, Turkish, Ldik, 19th century The carpet has been cut down the centre and rejoined; at least 4" of the width is missing. Length: 6' 1" (185.5 cms) Width: 3' 32" (100 cms) WARP: white wool; Z2S; 16 threads per inch (67 per dm). WEFT: light brown wool; Z spun, unplied; every so often there is a wedge of one shoot with 2 parallel threads to even up the tension; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 12 knots per inch (42 per dm). PILE: wool; 11 colours: red, light red, yellow, green, blue, light blue, purple (faded to brown); light purple (faded); pink, dark brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 96 knots per sq. inch (1407 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: missing. Two cords overcast with dark red wool have been added. END FINISH: missing. DESIGN: described as woven: Field: in three parts (a) lower: red ground with multi-crenellation at the top with two large downward arrowheads filled largely with light purple with a hooked and horned cross with a blue rosette on a light red ground at the very top. There are four partial arrowheads pointing upwards - the central two abutting. Five tulips are suspended from the five crenellation points; they are on blue stalks and have red centres; two tulips are blue, three are dark brown. (b) Centre: red ground with one yellow S-motif in lower left and a row of small flowers springing from both sides and from the niche, which is stepped and outlined in yellow with a multi-coloured band which extends round the panel in green and then light blue and a second band of purple, third band of blue and a fourth of red which is hooked at every corner. (c) Upper: blue ground with, at the top, a pair of multi-coloured carnations on long pink stems and below, a pair of large light red serrated leaves and a pair of purple (all on diagonals); these four leaves enclose two small blue rosettes and a cluster of flowerheads. There are similar rosettes and clusters elsewhere on the field. Between(a) and (b) there is a band with a red floral meander on a green ground. Main border: yellow ground with large rosettes with quartered cnetres alternating with leaves on a right-angled stem which frames a lilly. These two motifs are divided by a bar with an inward facing arrowhead at each end, between which are three small flowers. Inner and outer border: floral meander on green stem; inner has purple ground and outer has pink ground. Innermost border: light blue ground with alternating red and dark brown angular S-motifs. Catalogue Date: 26.4.95 |
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| Production | The Anglo Persian Co. S. Kensington. Purchased for £24.0.0. "Prayer rug, Ladik". "This is a good example of an Asia Minor prayer-rug of the 'Ladik' type which is not at present represented in the Museum Collection. It appears to date from the late 18th century and is very similar to a speciment (dated (=) 1797) illustrated in Mengebauer';s Handbook of Oriental Carpets, pl. III, opp. p.104. Rugs of this type are not common, and the price asked is very moderate. " C.E.C.T. to A.F.K. "It is a far better example than any we have of the type, and it is seldom that one comes across a Ladik rug in regard to which there is such good evidence of 18th century origin... Iam convinced.... that we cannot do better than purches this example at the very reasonable price at which it is offered". A.K. to the Director. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.403-1921 |
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