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AN USHAK PRAYER RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The brick red mihrab with polychrome floral sprays scattered throughout with a medium indigo re-entrant surround with a tomato red meander vine all beneath a deep hunter-green floral motif-filled arch, in an abrashed indigo flowerhead border between S-motif cartouche guard stripes, slight surface wear, minor areas of repair, slightly tattered ends and sides
Approximately 6ft. 3in. x 4ft. 6in. (191cm. x 137cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, hardly to slightly depressed, undulating
Weft: two to four shoots in irregular order, ivory wool, Z2S, the first (and third) undulating, the second (and fourth) more strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2, knots symmetrical inclined to the left and right, and not inclined, H1.6 x V2.3/cm.
Sides: ground-shoot drawn flatwoven around two supplementary warps, additional fastening with flatweave in wool in different blues, Z1
Upper end: flatwoven shoots in ivory wool, Z1, remains of green yarn
Remarks: sometimes displaced knotting
WEST ANATOLIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The brick red mihrab with polychrome floral sprays scattered throughout with a medium indigo re-entrant surround with a tomato red meander vine all beneath a deep hunter-green floral motif-filled arch, in an abrashed indigo flowerhead border between S-motif cartouche guard stripes, slight surface wear, minor areas of repair, slightly tattered ends and sides
Approximately 6ft. 3in. x 4ft. 6in. (191cm. x 137cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, hardly to slightly depressed, undulating
Weft: two to four shoots in irregular order, ivory wool, Z2S, the first (and third) undulating, the second (and fourth) more strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2, knots symmetrical inclined to the left and right, and not inclined, H1.6 x V2.3/cm.
Sides: ground-shoot drawn flatwoven around two supplementary warps, additional fastening with flatweave in wool in different blues, Z1
Upper end: flatwoven shoots in ivory wool, Z1, remains of green yarn
Remarks: sometimes displaced knotting
Provenance
Acquired 16 September 1927 as an "Uschak" for DM550