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Part 1: The Classical Carpets of the 15th to 17th centuries\", Hali, vol. vi/no. 4 (1984) pp.381 (analyst Jarman, S.)"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"McMullan (1972), illus. XXXI \"Turkish, double-niche\".  nb. elaborate 'shouldered' trefoil border, the main border - and inner/outermost 'chain' border.  Also illus. XXXII for stars in main border."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"C.G. Ellis (1988) illus. 32, \"Transylvanian Rug, European Turkey (Wallachia, Romania?), 18th century... rugs of this type... are ornamented with palmettes and floral trails which may grow out of two-handled vases (so-called mosque lamps)...\"  NB: working note on knotting.  Also note comment on illus. 31 (McMullan) \"which reproduces the older Transylvanian form in which (the cartouches) alternate with eight-pointed stars\"."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Batari (1994), illus. 50, \"Transylvanian\" Rug, Usak, about 1600\".  NB: decoration on vase/lamp, outermost lower border, trefoil border detail, main border design and layout.  Also illus. 52: NB. suspended lamp/vase (suspended from base in lower niche) and similarly decorated as in illus. 56 (\"first half 17th century\").  Also illus. 55 for elaborate trefoil and main border stars."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Stefano Ionescu, <i>Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania</i> (Rome: Verduci, 2007)."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Old label:\r\n\r\nThis 17th century Turkish carpet belongs to a group commonly called Transylvanian carpets because large quantities of them have been found decorating churches in the Transylvanian region of Romania. The carpet narrows toward the top which suggests that the warp threads were, accidentally, more closely spaced around the upper beam of the loom than they were around the lower beam.\r\n\r\nThe weavers of this carpet were knotting the border designs by copying a drawing which showed only a straight section of the repeating pattern. It was simple to weave this along the lower borders and then begin it again for the sides, but they had to truncate the side pattern in mid-motif once the field design had been completed. Carpets in which the borders have been designed to flow around the corners were woven from more detailed, and therefore expensive, designs.\r\n\r\nDue to age, there is a cloudy film on the inside of this glass; it is not harmful to the carpet.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["302-1894"],"accessionNumberNum":"302","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1894,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-25","recordCreationDate":"2004-06-15","availableToBook":true}}