Whether or not the weaver who scattered the human and
animal figures throughout the field of this piece was telling a
story or simply amusing herself as she wove, we’ll never know.
However, clearly she had a thing for long legged and muscular men.
An interesting detail: there are silk highlights, but only in the
two animal forms near the bottom. Each creature is arrayed with 21
knots of silk and metallic silk yarn in several colors. Was she
into show dogs as well? Note how the sparing use of white in the
main border adds sparkle to the piece.
Structural Data:
Size:
1’7” x 2’8” (48 cm x
81 cm)
Warp:
Natural white wool –
Z2S.
Weft:
Brown and gray wool –
Z2S. Two shoots
Pile:
Asymmetrical, open to left. h: 8 v: 11 kpi:
88
Colors:
(7) Blue, (lighter blue in abrash), red, pale
red, gray- brown, reddish brown, camel, white. Tiny silk
highlights in two animal figures in pink, purple, white silk
and yellow silk with metallic threads
Selvages:
2 warp cords
weft-wrapped with brown goat hair overwrap
