Production: Unknown
Warp: brown and ivory wool. Weft: brown wool. Sides: cords overcast with red wool. Ends: looped laterally, knotted and fringed. Soumak technique, flat weave, weft wrapping. Design: Three large medallions arranged down the central axis with four smaller octagons on either side and a multitude of small motifs - obelisks, birds, dragons, figures, etc., all on a red ground. The main border is of octagons containing hooked motifs, the outer border of repeated single hook motifs.
Given by Mrs. Elizabeth Hart in memory of her mother, Mrs. G.A.P. Lindner
Length: 283 cm
Width: 206 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1995-03-06) by Hart, Elizabeth, Mrs.
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1800
CE
-
Circa
1825
CE
Ends
Warp: brown and ivory wool. Weft: brown wool. Wool
Accession number: T.4-1995
Primary reference Number: 184726
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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