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Hi Tekkers,
it has been a looong time since I posted here. It's good to see the site all updated!
Does anyone have an opinion as to the origin and or age of the object in the attached photos? Dimensions are 4x6 feet.
You rexpertise appreciated!
Tim
Welcome back. I need to do more research on this one. But something isn't right; the knots appear to have been tied on the wefts rather than the warps...
Hi Chuck,
I thought something looked strange about the back! A google search turns up a weft-knotted Iranian bags in a John Howe presentations: https://rjohnhowe.wordpress.com/2010/07/, but it's not stylistically similar. I don't know what to think about that...
thanks,
Tim
First--a caveat... I am not an expert in any way. But...it doesn't look South Persian to me at all, in the drawing, design elements, colors, or that interesting weave. The last photo that shows the foundation almost looks like it was woven mechanically, but the pile doesn't look that way. The colors look pretty good to me, but in that modern-trying-to-match-old-colors way. There seems to be almost no patina here at all, so my guess is that this is a recently-made rug, but I have no idea where it would have been made.
Hi Paul, yes I thought about whether it could be mechanically woven too. The more I look, the more strange features I see, like in the blue field there are single lines of dark blue across the lighter blue abrash that go exactly from edge to edge of the field (2nd photo). If a weaver were knotting along the warp and switching balls of yard when one ran out, what are the chances that the ball would run out exactly at the edge of the field, repeatedly? Maybe there's something in this unusual weaving technique that I'm not understanding, but it seems weird.
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