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"Lotto" Ushak carpet, second half XVII century, Western Turkey, Ottoman Empire. Iparmuveszeti Muzeum (Museum of Applied Arts), Budapest. Inventory number: 80.288.1. Provenance: Legacy of Dr. Ferenc Papolczy and Dr. Magda Polanyi, Budapest, 1980.


Structure:
Warp: wool, Z2S, ivory;
Weft: wool, 1Z, brown 2 shoots, "lazy lines";
Ends: bottom: ca. 5 cm of 1Z blue wool kilim, top:ca 1,5cm of 1Z blue wool kilim;
Sides: later;
Pile: wool, 2Z, eight colours: red (Rubia tinctorum L.), yellow, blue 2 (indigo), apricot (Rubia tinctorum L.), brown 2 (carminic acid), ivory;

Knots; ghiordes, horizontal: ca. 26/10cm, vertical: ca. 30/10 cm, ca. 780/dm2.

 
Pattern: on a red ground yellow "Lotto" pattern, according to Ch.G.Ellis in "Kilim style"; Border: in the blue main stripe blue cartouches alternated with yellow ones.
Condition: worn, below in the middle 19x29 cm and left a smaller holes rewoven.