Description Tekke mafrash/kap, Turkmenistan, first half 19th century. A finely woven choice trapping with plush wool and cochineal magenta silk highlights in a repeated aina-guil pattern. A narrow elem along the bottom displays spare plant-like motifs and provide an elegant finish to this trapping. Exhibited and Published: Dodds and Eiland, Jr., eds.; ORIENTAL RUGS FROM ATLANTIC COLLECTIONS, p. 193, fig. 229, ICOC, Philadelphia, 1996. Size: 2'2'' x 1'0'' (66 x 30 cm). Weight: 1 lbs. Material: wool and silk pile, wool warp, wool weft. Warp: ivory wool, alternate warps level. Weft: brown wool, 2 shoots. Pile: wool, silk asymmetrical knot open to the right; 13 horiz. X 29 vert. Per inch (51 x 114 per dm.).
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