Mae Festa 50 Years of Collecting Textiles - Peter Pap Oriental Rugs

CENTRAL ASIA – Uzbekistan
Ikat Hanging or Cover (Parda)
Early 20 th Century
Bukhara
Silk warp-faced ikat, modern backing.
127 x 183 cm 50 x 73 in
This is a classic rendition of a design popular in the last
decades of traditional Uzbek ikat weaving. These were
almost always all-silk (shoi) textiles, made into countless
chapans (coats) and pardas in the early 20 th century
which have survived in relatively large numbers. There
are seven colors: natural white, two shades of red, yellow,
blue, green and a blackish purple, implying four dye
baths. The bull’s eye motif is relatively common in
Central Asian ikats, including ones substantially earlier
than this example. The exuberant “S” shape may be
derived from cloud-bands.
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