Small Rug

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What is interesting about this tiny rug, other than its electric blue highlights, is the way the weaver placed the botehs to give life to the presentation.  Notice that the botehs are woven in horizontal rows of similar colors, the recipe for a boring repetitive field design.  However by cleverly altering the spacing between them, she instead has given the field an appearance of randomly scattered elements and added a vibrant energy to a potentially tedious grouping.

 
  
   
 

Structural Data:

Size:

2’2” x 3’0”  (66 cm x 91 cm)

Warp:

Natural white wool – Z2S. 

Weft:

Brown wool in various shades– Z2S.  Two shoots

Pile:

Asymmetrical, open to slightly to left on left and slightly to right on right.  h: 7  v: 7  kpi: 49

Colors:

 (8) dark blue, medium blue, light blue, red, dark brown, medium brown, camel, white

Selvages:

4 warp cords weft-wrapped with brown goat hair overwrap or in some areas with replacement wool

Ends:

Narrow weft-faced plainweave; rest probably missing 

 
   

Online Exhibition:

"Baluch" from the Collection of Mark Hopkins


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