About This Artwork

Caucasus, Kazakhstan

Prayer Carpet, Late 19th century

Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut solid pile through a technique known as
"Ghiordes knots"
161.3 x 112.4 cm (63 1/2 x 44 1/4 in.)
Gift of Willis D. Nance, 1964.548




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