Posted on: 25 January 2012

Digital Rare Book:
Carpet Manufacture
By Fred Bradbury
Published by Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast - 1904

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Image details:
Part of a carpet with a design of a serrated ogival trellis with naturalistically-rendered flowering plants in each compartment. The field is plain red. There is a narrow outer border with a floral meander design - 1650
Possibly from Kashmir, India

Materials and Techniques:
Pashmina (goat-hair) pile on silk warps and wefts

Source: V&A, London


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