Description:Carpet fragment, wool knotted pile on cotton warp and wool weft, 'Vase Carpet' lattice design on dark blue ground, Safavid Kirman, Iran, 1600-1700
Object Type:Carpet fragment
Materials and Techniques:Warp: white cotton; Z4S; depressed; 34 threads per inch (125 per dm).
Weft: blue and brown wool; both z spun, not possible to determine if plied; 3 shoots after each row of knots, sometimes all 3 are blue and sometimes only the middle one; 16 knots per inch (60 per dm).
Pile: wool; 13 colours: red, dark yellow, yellow, light yellow, dark green, green, dark blue, blue, light blue, dark pink, pink, black (much corroded), cream; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 threads; 272 knots per sq. inch (3750 per sq. dm).
Side finish: both sides are missing.
End finish: both ends are missing.
