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This yellow and red design was popular for over a century.  It was worked from drawings and so its proportions could be easily changed.","physicalDescription":"Carpet, Lotto Carpet, Turkish, 16th/17th century      \r\nWARP: white wool; Z2S; 17 threads per inch (70 per dm).\r\nWEFT: red wool; Z-spun, unplied; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 11 knots per inch (60 per dm). Several 'lazy lines' are evident.\r\nPILE: wool; 8 colours: red, light red, yellow, green, blue, dark brown, brown, white; symmetrical knot tied around 2 threads; 93 knots per sq. inch (1750 per dm).\r\nSIDE FINISH: missing\r\nEND FINISH: missing\r\nDESIGN: Field: red ground with a typical Lotto design with yellow arabesques and blue infillings frequently outlined with red.\r\nMain border: yellow ground in lowest part, dark brown along most of the sides and green in the uppermost part.  White pseudo-Kuffic pattern outlined with brown, or green or dark brown.  There is infillings in red, light red, yellow and blue.\r\nInner border: red ground with a  geometric meander.\r\nNote: the 'lazy-lines' have cause some distortion in the pattern in te lower part of the carpet.\r\nCatalogue Date: 13.10.97","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Hand knotted woollen pile, on woollen warp and weft; symmetrical knot; 93 knots per sq. in (1,750 per sq. dm)","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"Floor coverings","id":"THES48953"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2017JY5444","2017JY5446","2017JY5447","2017JY5451","2017JY5456","2006AN8470","2012FF6391","2017KJ9885"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES325571"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Carpet","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Turkey","id":"x29225"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1500-1699","earliest":"1500-01-01","latest":"1699-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Weight","value":"13","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"30/09/2013","earliest":"2013-09-30","latest":"2013-09-30"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"1070","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Top","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"1100","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Bottom","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1770","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Proper right","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"1710","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Proper left","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Weight including roller","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased as \"Persian Rug\" from Giuseppe Salvadori in Florence, by Arthur Skinner, then assistant director of the museum.\n\r\nMemo of 16.IX.'97 to Sir John Donnelly asks permission for Mr Skinner \"to purchase objects to the value of £100 during his holiday in Italy with \"expenses for eight days (£8.8s).\"\r\n24/9 Mr Skinner to Mr Clarke reports:\r\n\"Salvadori, Florence, embroideries, carpets (paid) frs. 760.\r\nMinute paper:\r\n\"The following amounts written off Mr Skinner's imprest account 4th January 1898\r\nAmount paid to G. 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