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

 

Early rug fragment, Turkey. 15th century. Nationalmuseum, Sweden. NM 234/1939

 

Size: 11 x 13.5 cm

NM 234/1939

 

Weft: purplish brown, wool, 3 shots

 

Knots: 30V x 33H

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 21, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt