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

 

Early Turkish pile rug fragment, Anatolia. second half XV century. The Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden. RKM 324/1935

 

Size: 34.5 x 23 cm

RKM 324/1935

 

Weft: red wool, 2 shots

 

Knots: 30V x 22H (660 knots per square dm/43 psi)

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 27, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt