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Moghan rug with Memling Guls

CODE: MOG41

Size: 100x154cm

Size (ft): 3'3"x5'0"

Area:
1.54 m2

Density:
160 000 knots per square meter, totally ~250 000 knots

Colors: madder red, mauve/old purple, navy blue, cerulean blue, yelow, green, ivory, dark brown.

Dyes: madder, weld (Reseda Luteola), indigo, pomegranate skins, walnut husks, onion skins, natural brown sheep wool, natural ivory sheep wool

Materials: Handcarded and handspun wool for pile, ivory wool warps and ivory wool wefts (two shots). 1cm of flatwoven kilim ends at both sides. - wool on wool

Knots:
Gördes (Turkish, symmetrical)

Pile height:
0.6cm

Ends:
five rows of decorative knotted meshwork

Design:
The shaded blue field scattered with kochaks - hooked motifs and two columns of polychrome Memling-'guls', in an ivory border so called of crab rosette main border and cruciform minor borders



A rug with a 'Garmagli' medallion depicted in Hans Memling's Triptych, c. 1485. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna




Inscriptions:
1438 (=2017 weaving date), tamga (tribal seal) of Afshar tribe


Weaver:
Khayala

Weaving Period:
Three months

Handwoven in Azerbaijan

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