Tekke Torba, Turkmenistan, First Half 19th C.
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Tekke torba, 12-guls, Turkmenistan, first half 19th century. Woven with a high knot count, this multiple-gul trapping is unusually fine among other Turkmen trappings. The single crested birds inside the guls are clearly drawn. Exhibited and Published: Dodds and Eiland, Jr., eds.; ORIENTAL RUGS FROM ATLANTIC COLLECTIONS, p. 189, fig. 222, ICOC, Philadelphia, 1996. Size: 3'9'' x 1'4'' (114 x 41 cm). Weight: 2 lbs. Warp: light brown wool, alternate warps level to very slightly depressed. Weft: brown, one shoot. Pile: wool; asymmetrical knot open on right; 11 horiz. x 26 vert. per in. (43 x 102 per dm.). Other: one or more columns of symmetrical knots down both selvages.
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Tekke Torba, Turkmenistan, First Half 19th C.
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