Description

This Tekke rug dates to the third quarter of the 19th century.

It was woven by a member of this major Turkoman tribe, possibly, on account of its small size, as a wedding rug on which the bride would have been sitting during parts of the extended wedding ceremonies.

Its field design consists of four columns of seven guls, which are, unusually for a rug, unlike the guls on  main carpets but instead like the guls on torbas and juvals. Chemche guls, which are found on main carpets as well as bags, provide the secondary guls. The bottom and top ends feature a row of nine complete flower heads and two partial ones on the edges, which are not all exactly carried by a stem connecting to the leave patterns at the ends. The same flower heads appear in the side borders which are incomplete.

The quality of the wool is excellent giving the rug a lustre despite the fact it has a few areas of low pile and some patches.

Over all, this fragment has good age and is in usable condition