Beshir Carpet
19th century
Description
Beshir (w ersari) Compartments with 8 petal flowers in diamond shaped lozenge. Warp: 2 Z spun S plied light brown, white and dark brown sheep or goat hair. Weft I: sheep or goat hair. brown, white, dark brown. 2 shoots, some 3 = 2 parallel plus 1. Pile: wool. 2 Z spun plied S. Red, undyed white, undyed brown, blue cabrashe, dark and light, blue, green yellow. Edges: flat selvedge, 3 bundles of 2 wrapped in coarse dark brown goat hair.
Dimensions
300 x 118 cm (118 1/8 x 46 7/16 in.)
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