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Turkish rug fragment, ~1200s, Anatolia, Seljuq Sultanate.  Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. NM 39/1936

 

Size: 14 x 16.5 cm

 

Weft: red, wool, 2 shots

 

Knots: 40V x 32H, 1280 pdm2 (83 psi)

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 3, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat in 1935-36, Egypt