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Ararat Rugs Mamluk Carpet with Lattice Design, Natural Sheep Wool Colors No Dye

$5,600
£4,237.76
€4,887.46
CA$7,820.01
A$8,760.94
CHF 4,560.06
MX$106,691.48
NOK 58,089.10
SEK 54,703.54
DKK 36,484.27
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The source carpet comes from the Mercer Collection Sotheby’s 2000 (catalog cover). This Mamluk-Cairene carpet, curiously featuring some type of lattice, was designed in the early 16th century by the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, Egypt. This piece from the Bavarian National Museum in Munich is the most interesting and well-qualified for a court appearance, with its deployment of the Persian split-leaf arabesque placed daringly at the corners of the lattice. It has a sprightly, rhythmic elegance lacking in the other examples, such as the carpets in Berlin, the Textile Museum, and the Mercer piece sold at Sotheby’s in 2000. Perhaps the starting point for this design venture was an Iranian model now lost to us. Only a similar type of Textile Museum carpet features the tulip-and-pineapple border usually reserved for medallion carpets, and the lattice design forms the accompanying background, incongruously, for a standard Mamluk medallion. Attempting to read early carpets produced in workshops in Cairo provides an entirely different set of challenges. Cairene carpets, distinguished by their limited color palette, symmetrical knotting, and unusual construction of S-spun wool (Z-spun wool being the norm almost everywhere in the Islamic world), underwent a sudden change in design sometime after the Ottoman Turks conquered the Mamluk empire in 1517. The Simonetti Carpet was probably woven after the conquest but exhibits the “old” 15th-century style of the Mamluks. Long and narrow, it was woven on a standard-sized Egyptian roller-beam loom, capable of producing carpets of varying lengths. It consists of five major focal areas of design in an A-B-C-B-A pattern, meaning the first and fifth and the second and fourth areas are paired, while the middle is unique. We can easily term these five focal areas medallions, but they are geometric in both layout and detail, and their style (as opposed to the actual date of the weaving) predates the carpet design revolution that gave rise to the medallion format. We can surmise that the designs and colors of Mamluk carpets, with their unusual combination of insect-derived red, blue, green, and sometimes yellow, with virtually no undyed white at all, constitute an effort to create a recognizable brand in the early modern market, especially in Europe, where Mamluk carpets such as this, with their subtle coloration, incredibly detailed design, and mosaic-like layout of small and intricately patterned geometric motifs, constituted an appealing alternative to the more coarsely woven and brightly colored carpets from Anatolia, such as Ushak medallion carpets. While the weaving of carpets in the traditional geometric Mamluk designs continued well into the 17th century, sometime around the Mid-16th Century, Cairene weavers began to create an entirely new kind of carpet, using their traditional Mamluk materials, technique, and coloration but reflecting the latest styles then being created at the court of the Ottoman sultans in Istanbul. The design of the rug is interpreted by our designers, and soft colors are used for this rug. Color summary: 5 colors in total; (No dye, natural colors from Akkaraman Sheep) Rare Grey 105 (Specially washed) Burnt Coffee 102 (Specially washed) Bamboo Beige 99 (only specially washed) Natural Wool Color 320 (Specially Washed) Natural Wool Color 37 (Specially Washed). Group: Islamic Rugs Family Area: Mamluk Material of Pile: Natural Dyed Hand-spun Wool Material Warp / Weft: Wool on Wool Structure: Symmetrical knot on depressed warp inclining to the right Knots Density: 39x39 Production Place: Southeastern Anatolia – Diyarbakir Stock Location: Tokyo Size (EU): 151 X 217cm Size (US): 4'11" X 7'1" Area (EU): 3.3m² Area (US): 35.3ft²
  • Creator:
    Ararat Rugs (Manufacturer)
  • Dimensions:
    Width: 59.45 in (151 cm)Length: 85.44 in (217 cm)
  • Style:
    Revival (In the Style Of)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Natural Fiber,Organic Material,Wool,Hand-Knotted,Hand-Woven,Vegetable Dyed
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    2022
  • Production Type:
    New & Custom(One of a Kind)
  • Estimated Production Time:
    Available Now
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    Tokyo, JP
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 002801stDibs: LU8206232799452

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