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Rug, Tent Doorway Cover (Ensi)
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Typical Ersari Ensi (tent door hanging) with cruciform design divided the pile area into quadrants; 4 trefoils in each of these quadrants. Alem end is tapestry woven, striped. Probably southern Ersari.
Warps: 2 Z spun S plied undyed mixture of brown and white wool (coarse and hairy); one level. Weft (between knots): 1 Z spun undyed brown wool warn; 2 yarns per shoot. Weft (at alem/bottom end/tapestry weave): 2 Z spun S plied wool (same as pile yarn) in red, green, blue, undyed brown and undyed white. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool. Pile colors: dark blue, light blue, red, yellow, brown, white and dark green. Knots: asymmetrical, open to the right. Knots per vertical decimeter: 40. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 25. Both selvedges: wide, flat, 4 bundles of 2 warps each wrapped in what appears to be 2 Z spun S plied brown goat hair. Top end: 5 1/2 cm. tapestry weave with top two cm. folded over and stitched. Bottom end (alem): 17 cm. tapestry weave, stripped, with colored stripes.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Elizabeth Gowing Harborne W. Stuart Peggy Coolidge and the Estate of W.I. Stuart in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart Jr.
Title: Rug, Tent Doorway Cover (Ensi)
Description:
Typical Ersari Ensi (tent door hanging) with cruciform design divided the pile area into quadrants; 4 trefoils in each of these quadrants.
Alem end is tapestry woven, striped.
Probably southern Ersari.
Warps: 2 Z spun S plied undyed mixture of brown and white wool (coarse and hairy); one level.
Weft (between knots): 1 Z spun undyed brown wool warn; 2 yarns per shoot.
Weft (at alem/bottom end/tapestry weave): 2 Z spun S plied wool (same as pile yarn) in red, green, blue, undyed brown and undyed white.
Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool.
Pile colors: dark blue, light blue, red, yellow, brown, white and dark green.
Knots: asymmetrical, open to the right.
Knots per vertical decimeter: 40.
Knots per horizontal decimeter: 25.
Both selvedges: wide, flat, 4 bundles of 2 warps each wrapped in what appears to be 2 Z spun S plied brown goat hair.
Top end: 5 1/2 cm.
tapestry weave with top two cm.
folded over and stitched.
Bottom end (alem): 17 cm.
tapestry weave, stripped, with colored stripes.
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