Prayer Rug

Dagestan or Shirvan, Turkestan

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Date

About 1900

Medium

Wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots"

Dimensions

164.2 × 97 cm (64 5/8 × 38 1/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Margaret Walbank

Also notable

Works in the same vein

Sewan Kazak Rug

Southwest Caucasus

Garden rug

Caucasus, Kazakhstan

Karabagh Prayer Rug

Kazakhstan, Caucasus

Self-Portrait

Walter Shirlaw (American, 1838–1909)