MAS.693

Description

Scope and content : L.A. VI. ii. 0046. Fr. of coarse woollen pile-carpet. Warp of thin brown string; weft, four picks of loosely twisted yarn, well packed; pile, a soft woollen yarn, fourply, c. 1″ long, turned twice round each ‘end’ of warp forming a very firm knot. The length of pile is sometimes more than the ½″. There are about four rows to the inch (vertical), and about eight knots to the inch (transverse): = thirty-two to one inch sq. On back, at intervals of five picks of weft, are rows of long woollen tufts. Each tuft consists of two soft woollen yarns very slightly twisted and c. 5″ in length, slipped under every tenth ‘end’ of warp, no knot being tied and the two ends of tuft floating free. The object of these may have been to prevent the carpet’s slipping on a smooth floor.