1979.435: Storage bag (chuval) face
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1979.435
- Title
- Storage bag (chuval) face
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- rug
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Central Asia, Turkmenistan
- Culture
- Turkmen
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214516
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Warps: 2 S plied Z spun hard white undyed wool; one level. Weft: 1 Z spun brown undyed wool; 2 yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 S plied Z spun wool; small amount of silk. Pile colors: dark red, light red, dark, medium and light blue, bright yellow, small amounts of white and undyed brown. Magenta is silk. Knots: asymmetrical, open to the right. Knots per vertical decimeter: 100. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 47. Selvedges: both replaced, hand serged. Top end: 1/2 cm blue and 1/2 cm white tapestry weave, folded under and sewn in bright red. Bottom end: 1/2 cm red tapestry weave.
- Technique
- Woven with pile
- Dimensions
- 81.28 x 124.46 cm (32 x 49 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harbourne W. Stuart in Memory of Her Husband, Harbourne W. Stuart
- Accession Year
- 1979
- Object Number
- 1979.435
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Storage bag (chuval, joval) face, with compartment designs and a floral pile alem (end).
Verification Level
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