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

CENTRAL ASIA – Uzbekistan
Belt Fragment (face and back shown)
Late 19 th Century
Bukhara
Tablet woven, double-sided silk velvet.
76 x 9 cm 30 x 3½ in
This example has substantially broader and more
lively borders compared with the field, and the whole
has one ground color, a rose red, rather than both
alternating and paired colors. It is missing about
twenty percent of its original length, and sports
alternating, elongated, schematized flowering
plant forms, and smaller, more geometric forms.
Five different motifs are found in the borders from
complete abstractions to more flowering plants.
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