Saturday at Keshishian's
I found this Yastik is interesting for a
number of reasons. First of all the dark brown
ground was heavily eroded and down to the
foundation in many area so Harold had it
repaired. The red however is what drew Harold to
this piece, The red is a brilliant madder red
which is brighter than that normally seen in
Anatolian weaving.
I asked Harold where this rug was from and he
said, "Anatolia". Then he said that he
was always amazed at how some people can take
these and attribute them down to the village 1 or
2 hundred years after they were made. My thought
was that it may have been made in the Caucasus by
an Armenian emigrant. I was thinking this because
the red is much more like a really great
Caucasian madder. In the time frame this was made
thousands and thousands of Armenians were leaving
the Ottoman empire and moving to lands newly
under the control of the Christian Czar in the
Caucasus.
Mark
Keshishian and Sons.
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