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BACK TO EARLY OTTOMAN AND ANATOLIAN TURKMEN BEYLIKS PERIOD RUGS (XIV-XV CENTURIES)

 

Rug fragment with offset symmetrical knotting, 1400s, Turkey or Caucasus. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

 

Size: 10.5x23cm

NM 230/1939

 

Weft: red, wool, 3 shots

 

Knots: 50V x 40H, 2000 pdm2 (129 psi), (offset knotting technique)

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985; plate 15

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt.

 

Note: Lamm placed this fragment in the same group with the Marby rug (No offset knotting was used in the Marby rug)

 


 
NM 230/1939






NM 229/1939 (below) and NM 230/1939 (top)







NM 229/1939