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Early pile carpet fragment, Turkey. circa 1400-1475. Nationalmuseum (or National Museum of Fine Arts), Stockholm, Sweden. NM 41/1936

 

Size: 10.5x20cm

NM 41/1936

 

Weft: pale brownish red, wool, 2-3 shots

 

Knots: 38V x 25H, 950 pdm2 (61 psi)

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 22

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt.