Description Tekke long rug, Turkmenistan, mid-19th century.Meticulously woven with soft wool and natural dyes, this choice and unusual small rug joins other small format Tekkes in the Marsh Collection. Pinner draws attention to the unusual border, but there is another example in this Collection with identical boxed crosses alternating with spare cruciform motifs. This border style also appears in some Saryk weavings. Both pile elems are intact. Exhibited and Published: Dodds and Eiland, Jr., eds.; ORIENTAL RUGS FROM ATLANTIC COLLECTIONS, p. 170, fig. 189, ICOC, Philadelphia, 1996. Exhibited: "Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving," Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2003. Size: 2'10'' x 5'6'' (86 x 168 cm). Weight: 6 lbs. Warp: ivory wool, alternate warps slightly depressed. Weft: brown wool, two shoots. Pile: wool; asymmetrical knot open on right; 12.5 horiz. x 18 vert. per in. (49 x 71 per dm.). Other 1 to 2 columns of symmetrical knots down both selvedges.
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