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The arch is usually taken to represent the mihrab or decorative panel in the wall of a mosque which indicates the direction of Mecca.  Both white cotton and blue wool have been used as weft in this carpet: white cotton is found throughout most of the length and blue wool has been used in the centre to intensify the colour of the large, undecorated area.","physicalDescription":"Carpet, prayer carpet, hand knotted woollen pile on woollen warp and woollen and cotton weft, Turkish, Giordes, 19th/early 20th century.\r\nWoven from the point of the niche.\r\nWARP: white wool; Z2S; depressed; 21-24 threads per inch (84 per dm)\r\nWEFT: white cotton and blue wool; cotton: Z spun, apparently unplied, 2 parallel threads; wool: Z spun, unplied, 2 parallel threads; 2 shoots after each row of knots, many lazy lines especially at changes of weft colour; 14-17 knots per inch (60 per dm)\r\nPILE: wool; 12 colours: dark red, red, dark yellow, yellow, green, light green, green (faded to blue), dark blue, black, cream, white (cotton); symmetrical knot tied around two warp threads; 147-204 knots per sq inch (2520 per sq dm)\r\nSIDE FINISH: web of 6 threads overcast in green silk.\r\nEND FINISH: Lower: 1\" (2 cm) of green silk plainweave with several passes of yellow wool and white cotton.\r\nUpper: cut: 1cm of plainweave with green silk weft and several passes of yellowwool; 1cm of plainweave with white cotton weft and more passes with yellow wool. 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