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Right: incomplete but evidence of one cord oversewn with dark purple wool.\r\n\r\nEND FINISH: lower: incomplete but evidence of a line of plain soumak in brown wool over 3 and back under 2, then 2 cms. plain weave with brown/red/brown weft followed by a very small amount of pattern stitched in brown and white wool; in this area are a few tightly plied warp loops.  CHECK.  Upper: incomplete, but 2 cms. plain weave with red weft after a line of brown jufti knots; plain weave band divided by broken line of white/light purple stitches over 3 threads.\r\n\r\nDESIGN: field: brown ground; 17 and two half bands of geometric blossoms in most colours, the bigger blossoms lying in four rows with a vertical/near horizontal lattice of leaves and stems in red outlined in blue with five blossoms within each frame.\r\n\r\nMain border: brown ground with large floral rosettes in various colours in rectangles formed by foliate brackets.\r\n\r\nInner border: yellow ground with a red and blue floral meander (dark blue along the lower border).\r\n\r\nOuter border: cream ground with dark red, dark blue, dark purple, light purple (and dark green in top border) stars with coloured centres linked by pairs  of dark red or light purple brakcets.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"wool","id":"x30441"}],"techniques":[{"text":"weaving","id":"AAT53642"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2017KK4494","2017KK4495","2017KK4504","2017KK4516","2017KK4530","2018KV2495","2018KV2491","2012FJ1082"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES325505"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Carpet","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Caucasus","id":"x35141"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"19th century","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1900-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"1175","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Top edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"1285","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Bottom edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1725","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Proper right","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1895","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Proper left","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"15","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"30/09/2013","earliest":"2013-09-30","latest":"2013-09-30"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Weight including roller","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased for the Museum by Robert Murdoch Smith, from Sidney Churchill in Tehran, this was acquired as a batch of fourteen carpets and carpet fragments and ten specimens of qalamkari printed cotton. Murdoch Smith wrote: \"Among the articles are a number of carpets and pieces of carpets of the 17th century and earlier date (some as early as the end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century) which will, I think, form a valuable addition to the Museum collection. Some of the best specimens - small pieces, not whole carpets - were got from the <i>rufuqir</i> or darners of worn and torn carpets in the Teheran bazaar.\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"1800s, Caucasian; Karadagh","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Karadagh\r\nPurchased from Mr. S Churchill, through Murdoch Smith, Teheran, described as \"small old carpet (180 years old) 32 krans\"\r\nReferred to in \"Azerbaijani Carpets in the V & A\" by Latif Kerimov. Published International Symposium, Baku, 1983, p. 31, pl. 23\r\n\r\ncf: Bennett (1981) illus. 93 \"Karabagh, late 19th c./early 20th c.\", for outer border.\r\n\r\nThompson (1983) page 113 \"Kazak, nineteenth century\" also for outer border\r\nFord (1981) illus. 82, \"Yalameh .... with .... other Persian origins.... use the Herati border design....\" for inner border.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["149-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"149","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-22","recordCreationDate":"2005-10-20","availableToBook":true}}