A YOMUT CARPET
TURKMENISTAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
The shaded fox-brown field with diagonal rows of Tauk Nuska guls, the quartered centres of each with four addorsed C-motifs, divided by diagonal rows of alternating indigo and sea-green turreted guls containing C-motifs, in an ivory border of meandering angular vine linking arrowhead motifs and hooked lozenges between red chequered triangle and minor barber-pole stripes, a fox-brown skirt of polychrome lattice containing chequered flowerheads at each end, remains of a striped kilim strip at each end, areas of slight wear, a couple of small old repairs, selvages replaced
9ft.9in. x 5ft.10in. (296cm. x 178cm.)