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Anatolia, Milas
Prayer Rug (sejjadeh),
19th century
A prayer rug made in the
village of Milas typically has an earthy palette of orange-red,
gold, and deep purple, and a small mihrab with a "diamond-headed"
shape that is perhaps an extreme stylization of the gracefully
indented prayer niches of Ottoman court rugs. This example of Milas
weaving is distinguished by its unusually deep and intense colors.
It exhibits a compendium of Turkish rug design, including a tribal
gul-like form in its field and a quartet of bud-sprouting palmettes,
derived from Ottoman court art, in its spandrels. The weaver began
her lower main border in a faithful court idiom of palmettes and
flowers, but she seems to have experimented with these forms, even
substituting a second border pattern on the left side, as she
knotted her way to the top of the rug.
J.B.
Published: Charles W.
Jacobsen, Oriental Rugs: a Complete Guide, Rutland, Vermont,
and Tokyo, Charles E. Turtle, Inc., 1962, pl. 135, p. 432.
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Structural Analysis |
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SIZE: |
65
1/2 X 49 in. (165.5 x 124.5 cm.) |
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WARP: |
wool, Z2S;
ivory |
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WEFT: |
wool, z x
2-3; red |
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PILE: |
wool, Z2S,
symmetrical knots straight or pulled
to the left, h. 8, v. 10, 80 k/sq. in.; ivory, dark
brown, brown, dark orange-red, orange-red, light
orange, pink, green, light green, blue, light blue,
purple |
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ENDS: |
red wool
weft-faced plain weave |
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SIDES: |
red wool
selvedge of 4 cords of 2 warps each |
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