The Salting Carpet
موزۀ ویکتوریا و آلبرت
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Label:The Salting Carpet
Description:Carpet, known as the 'Salting Carpet', wool knotted pile and metal brocade on silk foundation, red central medallion on dark blue field filled with leafy floral scrolls, cloudbands, birds, Chinese-style lions and dragons, outer border inscribed with Persian verses from the poet Hafez, Safavid Iran, 1560-1580
Object Type:Carpet
Materials and Techniques:Hand-knotted wool pile, on silk warp and weft, with areas brocaded with metal thread; asymmetrical knot, open to the left; 600-756 knots per sq. in (9,024-11,544 per sq. dm).
WARP: yellow silk; Z2S; depressed; 192 - 208 warp threads per dm (48 - 54 per in)
WEFT: Foundation weft: yellow silk; Z2S; 3 shoots after each row of knots; 94 - 111 knots per dm (25 - 28 knots per in). Pattern weft: (1) silver strip, Z-twisted around a yellow silk core; (2) silver strip, Z-twisted around a white silk core; brocaded over 3 warp threads.
PILE: wool; 14 colours: dark red, light red, dark orange, yellow, dark green, green, light green, very light green, dark blue, blue, very light blue, dark brown, brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left; 9024 -11544 knots per sq.dm (600 - 756 knots per sq. in).
SIDE FINISH: one cord oversewn with dark red silk.
END FINISH: Lower: part missing but there are the remains of a tapestry-woven band with an inscription in black and silver thread. Upper: cut.
Place:Iran (made)
Attribution:©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
License:پیوند به بیرون
Related:پیوند به بیرون