Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms, ca. 1650, Made in Northern India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore, Silk (warp and weft

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Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms, ca. 1650, Made in Northern India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore, Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile, L. 163 3/4 in. ( cm), Textiles-Rugs, The finest Indian carpets were made with a pile of pashmina wool and a foundation of silk, which allowed for hundreds of knots to be tied per square inch. Increasing the suppleness and softness of the carpet, the greater number of knots also increased the subtlety of the patterns that could be made on the carpet; here, a scrolling vine from which bloom palmettes, poppies, irises and serrated lancet leaves

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