Bag Face
19th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Turcoman bag face.
WARP: grey and brown/white plied wool; Z2S; 15 threads per inch (53 per dm) with extra warp threads added as work progressed. NB: loops of cream wool added at lower and upper ends as extensions or later as a rough repair?
WEFT: dark brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 19 knots per inch (76 per dm).
PILE: wool: 6 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, green, dark blue, white; symmetrical knot (but with some single warp knots towards the left hand side of the elem tied around each thread and not alternate ones); mostly tied around 2 warp threads but with some rows around 4 (perhaps to increase the width of the elem ) and showing wear; 143 knots per sq. inch (2014 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: Left: evidence of one cord oversewn with dark red wool. Right: missing.
END FINISH: both ends missing.
DESIGN: Field: dark red ground with four bands of four identical guls, quartered in red and white; three and two half bands of smaller crosses formed from four redrectangles with central dark yellow and white rectangle, all containing a star.
Main border: white ground with a central stem across which an angular S shape lies at right angles at intervals.
Inner and outer border reciprocal 'running dog' pattern in red and dark blue outlined in dark yellow.
Elem: the deep elem is of solid dark red wool.
Uppermost band: incomplete: a dark red ground with some evidence of green motifs outlined in red. NB: the main and inner and outer border design often found in soumak weaving.
WARP: grey and brown/white plied wool; Z2S; 15 threads per inch (53 per dm) with extra warp threads added as work progressed. NB: loops of cream wool added at lower and upper ends as extensions or later as a rough repair?
WEFT: dark brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 19 knots per inch (76 per dm).
PILE: wool: 6 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, green, dark blue, white; symmetrical knot (but with some single warp knots towards the left hand side of the elem tied around each thread and not alternate ones); mostly tied around 2 warp threads but with some rows around 4 (perhaps to increase the width of the elem ) and showing wear; 143 knots per sq. inch (2014 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: Left: evidence of one cord oversewn with dark red wool. Right: missing.
END FINISH: both ends missing.
DESIGN: Field: dark red ground with four bands of four identical guls, quartered in red and white; three and two half bands of smaller crosses formed from four redrectangles with central dark yellow and white rectangle, all containing a star.
Main border: white ground with a central stem across which an angular S shape lies at right angles at intervals.
Inner and outer border reciprocal 'running dog' pattern in red and dark blue outlined in dark yellow.
Elem: the deep elem is of solid dark red wool.
Uppermost band: incomplete: a dark red ground with some evidence of green motifs outlined in red. NB: the main and inner and outer border design often found in soumak weaving.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | 1800s, Turcoman; Saryk |
| Physical description | Turcoman bag face. WARP: grey and brown/white plied wool; Z2S; 15 threads per inch (53 per dm) with extra warp threads added as work progressed. NB: loops of cream wool added at lower and upper ends as extensions or later as a rough repair? WEFT: dark brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 19 knots per inch (76 per dm). PILE: wool: 6 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, green, dark blue, white; symmetrical knot (but with some single warp knots towards the left hand side of the elem tied around each thread and not alternate ones); mostly tied around 2 warp threads but with some rows around 4 (perhaps to increase the width of the elem ) and showing wear; 143 knots per sq. inch (2014 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: Left: evidence of one cord oversewn with dark red wool. Right: missing. END FINISH: both ends missing. DESIGN: Field: dark red ground with four bands of four identical guls, quartered in red and white; three and two half bands of smaller crosses formed from four redrectangles with central dark yellow and white rectangle, all containing a star. Main border: white ground with a central stem across which an angular S shape lies at right angles at intervals. Inner and outer border reciprocal 'running dog' pattern in red and dark blue outlined in dark yellow. Elem: the deep elem is of solid dark red wool. Uppermost band: incomplete: a dark red ground with some evidence of green motifs outlined in red. NB: the main and inner and outer border design often found in soumak weaving. |
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| Production | Central Asia: Saryk Mentioned and illustrated in "Turkoman Rugs in the V & A" by R. Pinner and M. Franses (intro by Donald King), tec. analyses by L. Pinner. Hali 1980, Vol. 2., No.4, p. 302, 303, 307, 308, 315. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 311-1884 |
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| Record created | February 16, 2006 |
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