£ 1,200.00
1330 x 33 cm // 43ft 8" x 1ft 1"
Complete with minor silk tufts
This antique tent band is preserved in its entirety. Some damage to the sides is presumably the result of peripheral use done connecting the yurt wall to the roof to assist closing the gap and fixing the seperate parts of the stucture as befitted to its original purpose. The sides have further been conserved by us using a compatible supporting brown colour cotton tape.
The type is well known being documented in the milestone publication Carpets of Central Asia by General Andrey A. Bogolyubov from his time serving as the Russian Governor of the Transcaspian region at the end of the 19th century
The minute silk content consisting of isolated tufts whose colour is derived almost certainly of lac dye laccifer lacca obtained from South Asia and similar to cochinal from the New World. The presence of lac dye silk signals a degree of prestige conferred to this tent band . All the colours are of natural dyes otherwise.
CF Plate 20 : Carpets of Central Asia , A.A. Bogulyubov , St. Petersburg in 1908
• Late 19th cent
Ref. 18407
