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Carpet

Warp: Light brown and natural white camel hair ? Weft: Dark brown camel hair (intermediate weft), wool, red, brown, blue, orange, violet, natural white, green, wine red, dark pink, grey (formerly blue-violet ?), black (pattern weft) Technique: Sumac running predominantly against each other In the red-ground central field vertical pattern stripes, each with 2 mirror-image rows of hooked ornaments. Various multicoloured motifs along the mirror image axis. The design stripes are separated by narrow blue-ground stripes with orange-coloured parallelograms. Numerals on one broadside: 1356 56th-10th-25th, possibly 1356 again, but in Arabic script. Red-ground border with multicoloured, 8-pointed star motifs. Fringes on both sides

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Object type
Carpet
Dimensions
Length: 312 cm
Width: 173 cm
Length: 284 cm
Material/Technique
Hair (camel), Wool
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I B 13483

Provenance and sources

where
Afghanistan
Quargin (?)
who
Malek & Co. GmbH, Nomaden- Afghan-Teppiche - Former Possessors

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