1907,1111.105

Description

Scope and content : N. vii. 3. Portion of rug, of the regular Indian Darrie type, woven in transverse stripes and bands, and decorated with simple geometrical patterns. Warp buff in colour, and made of a more closely-twisted yarn than that used for the weft, which generally spreads enough to conceal the warp. The cross stripes are buff, blue, green, and red, and are of varying width. On broad blue band small Svastika-like pattern in red and buff. On buff band same pattern in red and blue, and red and green. On red band the pattern is in buff and blue, and buff and green. Where the patterns occur, the weft threads of the ground are arrested, and the colour required locally introduced as in tapestry. As these parts were more laborious to make, double threads are used right across the fabric on the lines where the patterns occur, thus saving time. The coarser texture of the resultant surface is clearly visible in the reproduction. 19" x 15½". See Pl. LXXV. Other pieces of same rug, found in N. vii. and hall of N. III. measure 20" x 12", 16" x 8", 21" x 6½", 9" x 9", 26" x 9", 3" x 5"; some small fragments aggregating to 19" x 10". [AK]