CHRISTOPHER ROBIN ANDREWS

CLASSICAL CARPETS

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51" x 70"                  

©Classical Carpets 

Design by Christopher Robin Andrews, production directed by I. Tekin,  weaving overseen by Mustafa, woven by Emine, Serife, Sultan, and  Fatma, yarns dyed by Mustafa, finished carpet washed by Abdurrahman and Abdullah , completed in October of 2007 in a village in the Ushak region of Central Anatolia .  The field design is a classical "Anatolian" Lotto pattern with an open "Kufic" border, characteristic of the earliest Lotto rugs and seen in the paintings by Lorenzo Lotto.  The yarns are handspun wool, including the madder dyed warp and weft.. This carpet has ~ 100 knots @ square inch.  naturally dyed colors include madder red, weld yellow, indigo dark and light blue, medium green, white,  and naturally black sheep's wool.  The pile is hand sheared to a height of ~3/16".  It also has our characteristic wide selvedges, long kilims and exposed warp decorative fringes, which we see in the best preserved antique carpets.  The carpet has been hand washed with mild soap and water.

"A Sleeping Maid"

Johannes Vermeer, 1656

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York City

This paining shows a Lotto carpet with a cartouche border.  

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