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A work made of cotton and wool, pain weave variation (supplementary wrapping wefts are enclosed between elements of paired ground wefts;  intervening ground wefts are single) with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots"; main warp fringe.

Carpet

Mid–17th century

Possibly Agra, India

India

Cotton and wool, pain weave variation (supplementary wrapping wefts are enclosed between elements of paired ground wefts; intervening ground wefts are single) with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots"; main warp fringe

Textiles