A LADIK PRAYER RUG, CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY The open deep brick-red mihrab beneath a stepped cream arch enclosing stylized polychrome palmettes and an aubergine and brick-red tulip blossom reserve, in a pale butter-yellow border of angular polychrome palmettes and an auberigine latched meander vine between partially oxidized brown floral guard stripes (partial lower guard stripe, partial major border upper end, small areas of reweaving and repair throughout, reselvaged) Approximately 4ft. 11in. x 3ft. 7in. (150cm. x 109cm.) Warp: white wool, Z2S, slightly depressed, slightly undulating Weft: two shoots, sometimes three, wool, Z1, the first (and third) reddish, the second brownish red, the first (and third) undulating, the second more strongly undulating Pile: wool, Z2S, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H3.3 x V4.9/cm. Sides: flatwoven ground-shoots bound with two supplementary pairs of warps, as an additional fastening flatwoven shoots with red wool, Z1 (bound with both of the warp-pairs and the outermost warp-thread of the knotted area) Upper end: plain weave with red wool, Z1 Upper end: plain weave with red wool, Z1
A LADIK PRAYER RUG, CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY The open deep brick-red mihrab beneath a stepped cream arch enclosing stylized polychrome palmettes and an aubergine and brick-red tulip blossom reserve, in a pale butter-yellow border of angular polychrome palmettes and an auberigine latched meander vine between partially oxidized brown floral guard stripes (partial lower guard stripe, partial major border upper end, small areas of reweaving and repair throughout, reselvaged) Approximately 4ft. 11in. x 3ft. 7in. (150cm. x 109cm.) Warp: white wool, Z2S, slightly depressed, slightly undulating Weft: two shoots, sometimes three, wool, Z1, the first (and third) reddish, the second brownish red, the first (and third) undulating, the second more strongly undulating Pile: wool, Z2S, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H3.3 x V4.9/cm. Sides: flatwoven ground-shoots bound with two supplementary pairs of warps, as an additional fastening flatwoven shoots with red wool, Z1 (bound with both of the warp-pairs and the outermost warp-thread of the knotted area) Upper end: plain weave with red wool, Z1 Upper end: plain weave with red wool, Z1
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