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It was commissioned by William Fremlin who served in India as an official of the East India Company from 1626-44, and who ended his career there as President of the Council of Surat. It is likely that the carpet was made towards the end of his career, probably in Lahore (today in Pakistan), which was a known centre of carpet production at the time.\r\nThe Fremlin coat of arms includes an elephant as its crest, but this does not appear to be connected with William's career in India, as the arms were first granted to the family in 1567.","physicalDescription":"Woollen pile carpet bearing the Fremlin coat-of-arms. The ground is red with a deep blue border. The pattern consists of floral, animal and bird motives interspersed with the coat-of-arms both in the main field and in the border.\n\nCotton warp and weft. Sehna knotting with three shots of weft between each line of knots. About 224 knots per square inch (16 knots per warp inch; 14 knots per weft inch). Warp  Z6S (or in some places Z5S), weft Z3S. 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The family coat-of-arms appears both in the main field and in the border.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Woollen pile carpet 'The Fremlin Carpet', probably made in Lahore, ca. 1640","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Swallow, Deborah and John Guy eds. <font u>Arts of India: 1550-1900</font u>. text by Rosemary Crill, John Guy, Veronica Murphy, Susan Stronge and Deborah Swallow. London : V&A Publications, 1990. 240 p., ill. ISBN 1851770224, p.157, pl.132.\r\nDan Walker. Flowers Underfoot. Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, illustrated in black and white fig. 49, p. 56, discussed pp. 17-19, 48-57"},{"reference":{"text":"Ayers, J. 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