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A KUBA GALLERY CARPET
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The abrashed deep indigo field with an angular polychrome afshan design overall within a madder red rosette and kufic bracket border and yellow floral vine guard stripes, small repairs scattered throughout, very minor areas of tinting, minor repairs to selvage overcasting
Approximately 12ft.3in. x 5ft. (373cm. x 152cm.)
Warp: wool, brown, brown with white threads or 1 strand white with 2 strands brown, Z3S, hardly to slightly depressed, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots white cotton, Z4S, one undulating, the other undulating somewhat stronger
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclining to the right, H3.4 x V3.6/cm.
Sides: wefts alternating wrapped around two additional warps or around these and two further additional warps
NORTH EAST CAUCASUS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The abrashed deep indigo field with an angular polychrome afshan design overall within a madder red rosette and kufic bracket border and yellow floral vine guard stripes, small repairs scattered throughout, very minor areas of tinting, minor repairs to selvage overcasting
Approximately 12ft.3in. x 5ft. (373cm. x 152cm.)
Warp: wool, brown, brown with white threads or 1 strand white with 2 strands brown, Z3S, hardly to slightly depressed, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots white cotton, Z4S, one undulating, the other undulating somewhat stronger
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclining to the right, H3.4 x V3.6/cm.
Sides: wefts alternating wrapped around two additional warps or around these and two further additional warps
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