Bag Face
19th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Bag face of wool.
WARP: White wool; Z2S; depressed; 25 threads per inch (98 per dm).
WEFT: grey/brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 28 knots per inch (105 per dm).
PILE: wool; 9 colours: dark red, red, light red, yellow, dark green, dark blue, light purple, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 350 knots per sq. inch (5145 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH
Lower: cut, with evidence of plain weave with red wool.
Upper: 2 cms. plain weave with white wool and then a narrow band with red wool up to the pile. The end has been turned and stitched in place.
DESIGN: Field of dark red ground; 3 bands of 3 octagonal guls, 3 pairs of horns extending out from all sides. The inner octagon is surrounded by multi-arches outlined in white and has intruding paired horns from 4 sides into the red ground containing quartered octagon around a central diamond quartered in dark green and light purple. The minor gul is in 2 and two half bands of 2 and two halves, and is a stepped cross with a pair of horns inside and outside the cardinal point. The outer quartering is predominantly white and red, the inner polygon is dark green and dark red with an X-motif in each quarter.
Borders described from the inside:
(1) quartered rectangles in red/dark green and dark red/dark green with central white florets.
(2) dark red ground, red rosettes outlined in dark green with a white floret centre, divided on side borders by white florets and along the top and bottom by brown bars.
(3) dark red ground: along the sides, decorated diamonds outlined and horned above and below in dark green or red; white, inward-facing pairs of horns separate them. Along the horizontal borders the same paired white horns separate rosettes within horizontally horned, dark green or red rectangles.
(4) as (2)
(5) as (1)
(6) dark red ground; dark green double zigzag horned on the outer point, the inner framing red triangles.
(7) above outermost border is a narrow band of multi-coloured chevrons.
Elem: maximum length 16 cms. below outermost border and framed by diagonal-block guard stripe. 3 bands of maximum 15 small floral plants, the stepped and horned blossoms in dark green or red on a dark red ground. Their 2 pairs of red/light red leaves terminate in red or white buds and they rest on diamond and comb motifs.
WARP: White wool; Z2S; depressed; 25 threads per inch (98 per dm).
WEFT: grey/brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 28 knots per inch (105 per dm).
PILE: wool; 9 colours: dark red, red, light red, yellow, dark green, dark blue, light purple, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 350 knots per sq. inch (5145 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH
Lower: cut, with evidence of plain weave with red wool.
Upper: 2 cms. plain weave with white wool and then a narrow band with red wool up to the pile. The end has been turned and stitched in place.
DESIGN: Field of dark red ground; 3 bands of 3 octagonal guls, 3 pairs of horns extending out from all sides. The inner octagon is surrounded by multi-arches outlined in white and has intruding paired horns from 4 sides into the red ground containing quartered octagon around a central diamond quartered in dark green and light purple. The minor gul is in 2 and two half bands of 2 and two halves, and is a stepped cross with a pair of horns inside and outside the cardinal point. The outer quartering is predominantly white and red, the inner polygon is dark green and dark red with an X-motif in each quarter.
Borders described from the inside:
(1) quartered rectangles in red/dark green and dark red/dark green with central white florets.
(2) dark red ground, red rosettes outlined in dark green with a white floret centre, divided on side borders by white florets and along the top and bottom by brown bars.
(3) dark red ground: along the sides, decorated diamonds outlined and horned above and below in dark green or red; white, inward-facing pairs of horns separate them. Along the horizontal borders the same paired white horns separate rosettes within horizontally horned, dark green or red rectangles.
(4) as (2)
(5) as (1)
(6) dark red ground; dark green double zigzag horned on the outer point, the inner framing red triangles.
(7) above outermost border is a narrow band of multi-coloured chevrons.
Elem: maximum length 16 cms. below outermost border and framed by diagonal-block guard stripe. 3 bands of maximum 15 small floral plants, the stepped and horned blossoms in dark green or red on a dark red ground. Their 2 pairs of red/light red leaves terminate in red or white buds and they rest on diamond and comb motifs.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Wool |
| Brief description | Bag face of wool, Central Asia, 19th century |
| Physical description | Bag face of wool. WARP: White wool; Z2S; depressed; 25 threads per inch (98 per dm). WEFT: grey/brown wool; Z2S; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 28 knots per inch (105 per dm). PILE: wool; 9 colours: dark red, red, light red, yellow, dark green, dark blue, light purple, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 350 knots per sq. inch (5145 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH Lower: cut, with evidence of plain weave with red wool. Upper: 2 cms. plain weave with white wool and then a narrow band with red wool up to the pile. The end has been turned and stitched in place. DESIGN: Field of dark red ground; 3 bands of 3 octagonal guls, 3 pairs of horns extending out from all sides. The inner octagon is surrounded by multi-arches outlined in white and has intruding paired horns from 4 sides into the red ground containing quartered octagon around a central diamond quartered in dark green and light purple. The minor gul is in 2 and two half bands of 2 and two halves, and is a stepped cross with a pair of horns inside and outside the cardinal point. The outer quartering is predominantly white and red, the inner polygon is dark green and dark red with an X-motif in each quarter. Borders described from the inside: (1) quartered rectangles in red/dark green and dark red/dark green with central white florets. (2) dark red ground, red rosettes outlined in dark green with a white floret centre, divided on side borders by white florets and along the top and bottom by brown bars. (3) dark red ground: along the sides, decorated diamonds outlined and horned above and below in dark green or red; white, inward-facing pairs of horns separate them. Along the horizontal borders the same paired white horns separate rosettes within horizontally horned, dark green or red rectangles. (4) as (2) (5) as (1) (6) dark red ground; dark green double zigzag horned on the outer point, the inner framing red triangles. (7) above outermost border is a narrow band of multi-coloured chevrons. Elem: maximum length 16 cms. below outermost border and framed by diagonal-block guard stripe. 3 bands of maximum 15 small floral plants, the stepped and horned blossoms in dark green or red on a dark red ground. Their 2 pairs of red/light red leaves terminate in red or white buds and they rest on diamond and comb motifs. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Anglo-Persian Carpet company. "Bokhara Saddle Bag; Turcoman, Salor pattern, mid 19th century" mentioned "Turkoman Rugs in the V & A" by R. Pinner and M. Franses (intro by Donald King), analyses by L. Pinner, Hali 1980, vol. 2, No. 4, p.303, 305, 315. cf: K. Gombos (1975) pp.98 & 101) "Szalor gol, Szalor ornamentikak" Elena Tzareva (1984) ill.25 "Saryk chuval, mid 19th c. NB: similar in structure (although warp not depressed and rather cramped spacing but not in design apart from main border. Siawosch Azadi (1975) ill. 20 "Salor chuval, beginning 19th centurye" Ulrich Schurmann (1969) p. 16, figure 5, "Salor Gul" A.A. Bogolynbov (ed. Thompson 1973) ill.3. "Antique chuval in wool and silk." Thompson identifies as Saryk and speculates "the white should be cotton and the knot symmetrical.. typically Saryk although the Salor gul is used". cf: Azadi (1975) ill. 20 "Salor chuval, beginning 19th century". Also ill. 1 "salor (carpet), 18th or 19th century" |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.167-1965 |
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