Antique palace size carpet No. 46444 Savonnerie, ca. 1920 Europe 955 x 550 cm
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| Item Number: |
46444 |
| Name: |
Savonnerie, ca. 1920 |
| Country of Origin: |
Europe |
| Size: |
955 x 550 cm |
| Made:
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ca. 1920 |
| Pile: |
wool |
| Design: |
floral and geometric / allover |
| Ground Color: |
brown |
| Remarks: |
This is a unique handmade / hand-knotted carpet
The pile of this carpet is made of wool
No design in field, with one abrash, good pile |
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This Oriental rug has 1 abrash. The word "abrash" comes from the Persian word for cloud "abr". It is the expression for unwanted color differences in rugs. Mostly they are caused by not having dyed enough wool for the rug so that further wool has to be dyed and creating exactly the same tone of color is nearly impossible, especially with vegetable dyes. Mostly this happens with tribal/nomadic carpets. When washed these differently dyed wools react differently and the initial hardly visible difference in color increases and becomes an abrashe. Some religious people create such color differences in Oriental rugs on purpose in order to grant Allah the exclusive role to create perfect things. In newer productions abrashes are often made in order to give the rug a more authentic antique look.
