Rug

Museum number:
9-23801
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
147 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Rug, mafrash. 4 panels between 16"-19" each, joined with faggotting stitches, but not all the way to the ends. Colors: red, black, and white sheep wool and beige camel hair. 'Weirjan patterns at joins are handsome. Narrow bands of "ant" patterns in red and blue. Wasm and a word embroidered on a white strip. S-ply. Red and blue dyes unknown. Plain weave and complementary warp patterning. 12 EPI. Ends are beautifully embroidered with black cotton binding sewn over them by machine and by hand. Loops were sewn on for hanging on one end.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Rome (modern city), Lazio, Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Rome
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
Myers bought in Rome in 1952; Gifted to Hilden in 1995
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Rugs (textiles)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— length 111 inches and whole— width 68 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Rug, accession number 9-23801, described as Rug, mafrash. 4 panels between 16"-19" each, joined with faggotting stitches, but not all the way to the ends. Colors: red, black, and white sheep wool and beige camel hair. 'Weirjan patterns at joins are handsome. Narrow bands of "ant" patterns in red and blue. Wasm and a word embroidered on a white strip. S-ply. Red and blue dyes unknown. Plain weave and complementary warp patterning. 12 EPI. Ends are beautifully embroidered with black cotton binding sewn over them by machine and by hand. Loops were sewn on for hanging on one end.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Rug, accession number 9-23801, described as Rug, mafrash. 4 panels between 16"-19" each, joined with faggotting stitches, but not all the way to the ends. Colors: red, black, and white sheep wool and beige camel hair. 'Weirjan patterns at joins are handsome. Narrow bands of "ant" patterns in red and blue. Wasm and a word embroidered on a white strip. S-ply. Red and blue dyes unknown. Plain weave and complementary warp patterning. 12 EPI. Ends are beautifully embroidered with black cotton binding sewn over them by machine and by hand. Loops were sewn on for hanging on one end.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Rug, accession number 9-23801, described as Rug, mafrash. 4 panels between 16"-19" each, joined with faggotting stitches, but not all the way to the ends. Colors: red, black, and white sheep wool and beige camel hair. 'Weirjan patterns at joins are handsome. Narrow bands of "ant" patterns in red and blue. Wasm and a word embroidered on a white strip. S-ply. Red and blue dyes unknown. Plain weave and complementary warp patterning. 12 EPI. Ends are beautifully embroidered with black cotton binding sewn over them by machine and by hand. Loops were sewn on for hanging on one end.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Rug, accession number 9-23801, described as Rug, mafrash. 4 panels between 16"-19" each, joined with faggotting stitches, but not all the way to the ends. Colors: red, black, and white sheep wool and beige camel hair. 'Weirjan patterns at joins are handsome. Narrow bands of "ant" patterns in red and blue. Wasm and a word embroidered on a white strip. S-ply. Red and blue dyes unknown. Plain weave and complementary warp patterning. 12 EPI. Ends are beautifully embroidered with black cotton binding sewn over them by machine and by hand. Loops were sewn on for hanging on one end.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Rug, accession number 9-23801, described as Rug, mafrash. 4 panels between 16"-19" each, joined with faggotting stitches, but not all the way to the ends. Colors: red, black, and white sheep wool and beige camel hair. 'Weirjan patterns at joins are handsome. Narrow bands of "ant" patterns in red and blue. Wasm and a word embroidered on a white strip. S-ply. Red and blue dyes unknown. Plain weave and complementary warp patterning. 12 EPI. Ends are beautifully embroidered with black cotton binding sewn over them by machine and by hand. Loops were sewn on for hanging on one end.

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