Carpet Fragment
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Carpet fragment, wool and cotton knotted pile on silk foundation, horizontal border design of floral and foliate scrolls and cloudbands on red ground
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Warp: green silk, Z3S, 36 threads per inch (154 per dm), depressed.
Weft: red silk and wool, 3 shoots of weft after each row of knots, 11 knots per inch (44 per dm). 1st shoot: S-spun unplied threads of wool, 2nd: broader shoot of untwisted silk.
Pile: wool and cotton, 7 colours, red, dark green, green, dark blue, light blue, light brown, white (cotton). Asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads. 198 knots per square inch (3,388 per sq dm). |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Carpet fragment, wool and cotton knotted pile on silk foundation, horizontal border design of floral and foliate scrolls and cloudbands on red ground, Ottoman Istanbul or Bursa, Turkey, 1575-1600 |
| Physical description | Carpet fragment, wool and cotton knotted pile on silk foundation, horizontal border design of floral and foliate scrolls and cloudbands on red ground |
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| Object history | V&A object file notes fragments also in the following collections: Vienna, Berlin, Hannover, San Francisco, Washington. See object file in Asia Department. |
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| Accession number | 375-1891 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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