Prayer Carpet

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Islamic

Title

Prayer Carpet

Place

India (Object made in)

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Made 1801–1900

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Persian (Sehna) knots"

Dimensions

193.6 × 128.7 cm (76 1/4 × 50 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph V. McMullan

Reference Number

1960.740

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