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Carpet

1881 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Machine-woven woollen chenille carpet with an all-over central design of marled blotching in shades of brown, camel and cream. Patterned border showing a repeating design of two geometric devises within squares worked in purplish-blue, cream and rust on a pink ground.

There is an inner and outer guard stripe of cream with black triangles edged in brown, an outer guard stripe showing a Near-Eastern stylised pattern in purplish-blue and black on cream and the carpet has an outer edging in black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Machine-woven woollen chenille
Brief description
Machine-woven woollen chenille carpet, made by J.S. Templeton & Co., Glasgow, 1881.
Physical description
Machine-woven woollen chenille carpet with an all-over central design of marled blotching in shades of brown, camel and cream. Patterned border showing a repeating design of two geometric devises within squares worked in purplish-blue, cream and rust on a pink ground.

There is an inner and outer guard stripe of cream with black triangles edged in brown, an outer guard stripe showing a Near-Eastern stylised pattern in purplish-blue and black on cream and the carpet has an outer edging in black.
Dimensions
  • Weight: 76kg
  • Length: 192in
  • Width: 142in
  • Length: 486.5cm
  • Width: 260cm
  • Top edge width: 3572mm
  • Bottom edge width: 3586mm
  • Proper right length: 4797mm
  • Proper left length: 4855mm
Weight including roller
Credit line
Given by Mrs Pamela Duveen
Collection
Accession number
T.272-1983

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Record createdJuly 20, 2004
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