The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 16, 2025
Turkmen Main Carpet
1870s
Overall: 257.7 x 250.2 cm (101 7/16 x 98 1/2 in.)
Gift of Arlene C. Cooper 2006.201
Location: Not on view
Description
Traditionally woven by women and girls, carpets are identified by fiber content, color, weave, and especially the type of rug knot-diagnostic features that are more reliable than designs. This rare carpet is admired for its brilliant color, lustrous wool, and spacious drawing. The main gul, or lobed motif, with three distinctive clover-leaf devices in each quadrant was a hallmark of the esteemed Salor tribe and often copied by other Turkmen tribes. The minor gul and the main border design were also duplicated. Only the minor borders with triangles in contrasting colors are Saryk hallmarks.- Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 18, 2014-December 14, 2015).
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