Production: Unknown
Field design: herati on a blue ground
Warp: ivory cotton, Z5S, slightly depressed.
Weft: ivory cotton, Z3S, 2 shoots
Pile: wool, 4 mm. height, 2 ply, symmetrically knotted. (30x 36) = 1080 knots per sq. dcm.
Dated: 1224/1809.
(Technical Analysis received from Annette Ittig, St. Antony's College, Oxford, on 28th August 1980)
Bought with A.D. Power Fund
Length: 169 in
Width: 77 in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1933) by Anglo Persian Carpet Co.
Production date: AD 1809
Pile
composed of
wool
( 4 mm. height, 2 ply)
Weft
composed of
cotton
( ivory cotton, Z3S, 2 shoots)
Warp
composed of
cotton
( ivory cotton, Z5S, slightly depressed)
Accession number: T.25-1933
Primary reference Number: 185459
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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