CHRISTOPHER ROBIN ANDREWS

CLASSICAL CARPETS

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53" x 75"                  

©Classical Carpets 

Design by Christopher Robin Andrews, production directed by I. Tekin,  weaving overseen by Mustafa, woven by Fadime, Hacer, Zeynep & Esma,  yarns dyed by Mustafa, finished carpet washed by Abdurrahman and Abdullah, completed in February of 2008 in a village in the Ushak region of Central Anatolia .  It was inspired by a carpet from the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts collection.  The Wheel carpets with fully developed and accurate interlace medallions are amongst the rarest in the world.   There are only about a dozen or so of this type, which are also referred to as "Para-Mamluk" or "Damascus" carpets.  This carpet is very finely woven for a Central Anatolian carpet, at  ~ 144 knots @ square inch.  The yarns are all handspun wool, including the warp and weft.   Colors include: madder and violet crimson red, weld yellow, medium indigo blue green, naturally black sheeps's wool, and ivory white, all using natural dyestuffs.