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AN EAST TURKESTAN SILK CARPET FRAGMENT
18TH CENTURY
The field with a lattice of linked octagons containing rosettes divided by smaller square panels containing swastikas, in a border of a hexagonal lattice around cusped cartouches containing character roundels flanked by stylised leaves with inner burgundy leafy vine stripe, ground colour severely corroded, some wear, holed, tattered ends and sides, wefts repaired on worn areas
Approximately 5ft. x 4ft.6in. (152cm. x 137cm.)
Warp: ivory cotton Z3-5S, at edges hardly depressed and slightly undulating, generally considerably depressed and undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, cotton, ivory or reddish, very rarely light blue, first and third undulating, second somewhat more so
Pile: silk, Z2-4S, asymmetrical open to the right, H3.1 x V2.4/cm.
Sides: the main weft passes around and through three additional bundled warps, additional red silk yarn wound with the additional warps around two, three and the outermost warp
Lower end: approx. 0.5cm. flatweave with yellow silk Z2S
18TH CENTURY
The field with a lattice of linked octagons containing rosettes divided by smaller square panels containing swastikas, in a border of a hexagonal lattice around cusped cartouches containing character roundels flanked by stylised leaves with inner burgundy leafy vine stripe, ground colour severely corroded, some wear, holed, tattered ends and sides, wefts repaired on worn areas
Approximately 5ft. x 4ft.6in. (152cm. x 137cm.)
Warp: ivory cotton Z3-5S, at edges hardly depressed and slightly undulating, generally considerably depressed and undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, cotton, ivory or reddish, very rarely light blue, first and third undulating, second somewhat more so
Pile: silk, Z2-4S, asymmetrical open to the right, H3.1 x V2.4/cm.
Sides: the main weft passes around and through three additional bundled warps, additional red silk yarn wound with the additional warps around two, three and the outermost warp
Lower end: approx. 0.5cm. flatweave with yellow silk Z2S