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A work made of wool and silk, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "persian" ("sehna") knots; edged with cotton, and wool weft-faced warp-ribbed plain weave.

Carpet

1675/1725

Morocco, Egypt, Syria, or Caucasus, Shiraz

Morocco

Wool and silk, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Persian" ("Sehna") knots; edged with cotton, and wool weft-faced warp-ribbed plain weave

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