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Carpet

1994 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Handknotted wool rug, cream ground with deliberate abash, grey lettering spelling 'She Like Love Flow'. White wool warp (16 threads per inch, 64 per dm), red wool weft; Z2S, 2 shoots after each row of knots; 5 knots per inch (20 per dm). Sides: one cord overcast with red wool. Ends: 2" (5cm) of pattern weaving with red wool. Loose warp fringe 2" (5cm) long.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Handknotted wool
Brief description
Carpet, handknotted wool, designed by Liliane Lijn for Christopher Farr, Turkey, 1994.
Physical description
Handknotted wool rug, cream ground with deliberate abash, grey lettering spelling 'She Like Love Flow'. White wool warp (16 threads per inch, 64 per dm), red wool weft; Z2S, 2 shoots after each row of knots; 5 knots per inch (20 per dm). Sides: one cord overcast with red wool. Ends: 2" (5cm) of pattern weaving with red wool. Loose warp fringe 2" (5cm) long.
Dimensions
  • Top edge width: 1940mm
  • Bottom edge width: 1960mm
  • Proper right length: 2290mm
  • Proper left length: 2290mm
Production typeDesign
Marks and inscriptions
'She Like Love Flow'
Gallery label
Christopher Farr has commissioned designs from fine artists, from textile designers more used to working with print media, from Royal College of Art students and from the couturier Romeo Gigli. Lilian Lijn is primarily a successful sculptor and book artist and elements from these disciplines are clearly apparent in her designs for Farr, in particular the intriguing and challenging use of the words on the carpet 'She Like Love Flow'. This carpet is one of the most successful results of an enterprising project to combine the work of contemporary western designers with the skills of traditional Turkish carpet knotting.(01/01/2003)
Object history
This rug is one of the most successful results of an enterprising project to combine the work of contemporary western designers with the skills of traditional Turkish carpet knotting.

Purchased. Registered File number 1994/1226.

object photographed and measured as part of Advanced Works project, 02/03/17

Historical significance: This carpet was purchased as part of a commission to refurbish the public and staff areas of the RCA Centre for Research and Conservation at the V&A, with work by contemporary artists. The project was initiated by Elizabeth Esteve Coll.
Historical context
Christopher Farr has commissioned designs from fine artists, from textile designers more used to working with print media, from Royal College of Art students and from the couturier Romeo Gigli. Farr has then had the designs handknotted in Konya, Central Turkey, from hand-spun and dyed wool. Traditional dyeing techniques bring an extra intensity to the depth of the colours and the subtle variations in shade and tone introduced by handweaving enliven the designs in a way not achieved by the tufting gun technique used for the majority of modern rugs.
Production
Liliane Lijn is primarily a successful sculptor and book artist and elements from these disciplines are clearly apparent in her designs for Christopher Farr, in particular the intriguing and challenging use of words on the carpet.

Reason For Production: Commission
Association
Collection
Accession number
T.581-1994

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2004
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