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Turkish rug fragment, ~1200-1310, Anatolia, Seljuq Sultanate.  Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. NM 43/1936

 

Size: 40 x 14.5 cm

 

Weft: red, wool, 2 shots

 

Knots: 31V x 28H, 868 pdm2 (56 psi)

 

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 6, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

 

Found in Fostat, Egypt