Armor Border Prayer Rug
Miami University Art Museum - 2007-09-07
Gund Gallery at Kenyon College - 2017-05-26
| ID# 900 | Date: 1991 | -:- | Size 30 x 56 inches
(76 X141 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 9 h X 11 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -ZPU-4 Prayer Rugs (Feedback Loop), Other examples of this style | Tribe: Unknown |
| A high-quality blue and orange prayer rug with white and red accents. A large blue shape in the center sports 5 rows of text, a tank, and what looks to be a large red anti-aircraft gun coming out the top.
Minarets, hand grenades, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, and other objects fill in the negative space around the center. The center composition is bordered by two thin red lines, which is then bordered by a procession of white and red tanks on a dark blue background. For exhibition at Miami University, museum hired amish sewers to tack on canvas loops through which dowels could be inserted to hang rugs on wall. |
| Wool: Soft, rich. | Sheen: Very shiny and lustrous | Handle: Thick but flexible | Selvedge: Tightly braided black goat hair. Slightly damaged. |
| Fringe: About one inch long- half an inch of plain blue knotted pile, a thin black and red weft brocade, another half inch of naturally colored knotted pile wool. | Pile: 4 mm | Warp: 4.5in long naturally colored wool looped warps. Special thanks to the excellent work of Marla Malett. | Weft: Grey cotton thread. |
| Warp Depression:30 degrees | |||
