Lot Essay
See the introductory essays for a brief discussion of Kula rugs. The design of the present piece places it within a group of Kula rugs known as cemetery rugs.
Details
A KULA PRAYER RUG
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The pale maize-yellow field with two polychrome stylized 'garden' motifs surmounted by polychrome stylized double palmettes issuing from latched cruciform motifs, in a walnut-brown mihrab surround and beneath a maize-yellow stylized floral-filled arch and within a pale indigo floral meander border and yellow barber-pole outer stripe, wear, areas of repiling throughout, partial ends
Approximately 5ft. x 3ft.4in. (152cm. x 102cm.)
Warp: wool, white, Z2S, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, wool, yellow, some striped with light and dark brown, Z1
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclining to the left, H2.9 x V4.1/cm.
Sides: Additional yellow wool shoot Z1, bound together with two additional pairs of warp threads,the foundation weft wound around a pair of warp threads.
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The pale maize-yellow field with two polychrome stylized 'garden' motifs surmounted by polychrome stylized double palmettes issuing from latched cruciform motifs, in a walnut-brown mihrab surround and beneath a maize-yellow stylized floral-filled arch and within a pale indigo floral meander border and yellow barber-pole outer stripe, wear, areas of repiling throughout, partial ends
Approximately 5ft. x 3ft.4in. (152cm. x 102cm.)
Warp: wool, white, Z2S, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, wool, yellow, some striped with light and dark brown, Z1
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclining to the left, H2.9 x V4.1/cm.
Sides: Additional yellow wool shoot Z1, bound together with two additional pairs of warp threads,the foundation weft wound around a pair of warp threads.
Provenance
Acquired 8 May 1952 as a "Kula" for DM400