"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.
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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.
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