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Tekke Main Carpet
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Tekke main carpet with 5 columns of 9 main carpet guls each; both kilim ends (alems) intact.
Warp: 2 S plied Z spun goat wool with high hair-count in undyed brownish-buff. Weft: 2 S ply Z spun goat wool with high-hair count undyed brownish-buff; 2 shoots. Pile: 2 S ply Z spun wool (high quality). Pile colors: brick red, salmon, undyed ivory, brown, midnight blue-black, navy blue and yellow-gold. Knots: symmetrical. Knots per vertical decimeter: 57. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 41. Both selvedges: large round bundle of approximately 5 warps; several more warps wrapped in extra wefts (of know material); over 6 warps, thicker knots tied. Top end: 6 cm brick red weft-faced kilim with 1 blue stripe toward carpet end and 3 blue stripes at outer edge; knots of 3 warps each to create fringe. Bottom end: same, but 8 cm. kilim.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Elizabeth Gowing in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart Jr.
Title: Tekke Main Carpet
Description:
Tekke main carpet with 5 columns of 9 main carpet guls each; both kilim ends (alems) intact.
Warp: 2 S plied Z spun goat wool with high hair-count in undyed brownish-buff.
Weft: 2 S ply Z spun goat wool with high-hair count undyed brownish-buff; 2 shoots.
Pile: 2 S ply Z spun wool (high quality).
Pile colors: brick red, salmon, undyed ivory, brown, midnight blue-black, navy blue and yellow-gold.
Knots: symmetrical.
Knots per vertical decimeter: 57.
Knots per horizontal decimeter: 41.
Both selvedges: large round bundle of approximately 5 warps; several more warps wrapped in extra wefts (of know material); over 6 warps, thicker knots tied.
Top end: 6 cm brick red weft-faced kilim with 1 blue stripe toward carpet end and 3 blue stripes at outer edge; knots of 3 warps each to create fringe.
Bottom end: same, but 8 cm.
kilim.
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