Saddle Cover
19th century (made)
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Saddle cover (made from something else and requires more thought)
WARP: cream wool; Z2S; 18 threads per inch (70 per dm).
WEFT: light brown wool; unable to ascertain spin and twist; 2 shoots after every row of knots; 21 knots per inch (86 per dm).
PILE: wool; 6 colours: dark red with some bleeding into the cream, red, dark blue, blue, dark brown, cream; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 189 knots per sq. inch (3010 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: Lower part: one cord oversewn with blue wool. Upper part: kelim band with slits; not using weft from the piled areas (which is fine) but using warp wool. Traces of a fringe.
END FINISH: Lower: maximum of 3.5 cms. of plain weave with cream weft; turned and stitched in place. Upper: one row of blue soumak the 3.5 cms. plain weave with cream weft.
DESIGN: two equal parts joined vertically. There is now an arch shaped with a band above it. The arch contains a square with two rectangles and several borders - the outer one contains stepped diamonds and the inner ones are checked. The band has a central hexagon with half a hexagon to either side; these contain a diamond motif. There is an "insert" in the sixth border from either side - there might originally have been a slit here.
Date catalogued: 21.6.94
WARP: cream wool; Z2S; 18 threads per inch (70 per dm).
WEFT: light brown wool; unable to ascertain spin and twist; 2 shoots after every row of knots; 21 knots per inch (86 per dm).
PILE: wool; 6 colours: dark red with some bleeding into the cream, red, dark blue, blue, dark brown, cream; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 189 knots per sq. inch (3010 per sq. dm).
SIDE FINISH: Lower part: one cord oversewn with blue wool. Upper part: kelim band with slits; not using weft from the piled areas (which is fine) but using warp wool. Traces of a fringe.
END FINISH: Lower: maximum of 3.5 cms. of plain weave with cream weft; turned and stitched in place. Upper: one row of blue soumak the 3.5 cms. plain weave with cream weft.
DESIGN: two equal parts joined vertically. There is now an arch shaped with a band above it. The arch contains a square with two rectangles and several borders - the outer one contains stepped diamonds and the inner ones are checked. The band has a central hexagon with half a hexagon to either side; these contain a diamond motif. There is an "insert" in the sixth border from either side - there might originally have been a slit here.
Date catalogued: 21.6.94
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Wool |
| Brief description | Saddle cover, 19th century, Central Asia |
| Physical description | Saddle cover (made from something else and requires more thought) WARP: cream wool; Z2S; 18 threads per inch (70 per dm). WEFT: light brown wool; unable to ascertain spin and twist; 2 shoots after every row of knots; 21 knots per inch (86 per dm). PILE: wool; 6 colours: dark red with some bleeding into the cream, red, dark blue, blue, dark brown, cream; asymmetrical knot open to the right and tied around 2 threads; 189 knots per sq. inch (3010 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: Lower part: one cord oversewn with blue wool. Upper part: kelim band with slits; not using weft from the piled areas (which is fine) but using warp wool. Traces of a fringe. END FINISH: Lower: maximum of 3.5 cms. of plain weave with cream weft; turned and stitched in place. Upper: one row of blue soumak the 3.5 cms. plain weave with cream weft. DESIGN: two equal parts joined vertically. There is now an arch shaped with a band above it. The arch contains a square with two rectangles and several borders - the outer one contains stepped diamonds and the inner ones are checked. The band has a central hexagon with half a hexagon to either side; these contain a diamond motif. There is an "insert" in the sixth border from either side - there might originally have been a slit here. Date catalogued: 21.6.94 |
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| Production | The Anglo-Persian Carpet Co., S. Kensington. Purchased as one of seven pieces for a total of £3 "knotted pile wall bag; Ersari" (1925) This is one of "7 interesting little pieces of Turcoman carpet-knotting, good in design, colour and technique"…. And one of four "tent-bags unlike any others in the Museum… the price for the seven pieces… is nominal" CECT to D?JBW (1924) Mentioned in "Turkoman Rugs in the V & A", by M. Franses and R. Pinner (intro. by Donald King). Analysis by L. Pinner. Hali 1980, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 303, 306, 315. Parsons: plate 20. cf: Zin-i-asp (saddle cloth) "Older pieces are frequently damaged, the result of a fold formed whilst in use" eg. (66 x 36 cms). |
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| Accession number | T.96-1925 |
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| Record created | September 18, 2008 |
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