Monday, August 8, 2011

A Pair of Camel Hair Runners

A matching pair of late 19th century camel hair runners, 3’ x 17’6”
Camel hair rugs and carpets were woven in the areas around the Persian weaving center of Hamadan. While one encounters room sized carpets made in this Kurdish village rug weaving region most of the production here was occupied with the weaving of runners.
Generally all these rugs and carpets are framed by a perimeter of undecorated camel color wool pile between 2”to 6” wide. Visually camel hair runners and carpets typically explore figure ground relationships and the attempt to create three dimensional space.
 In these two matching runners the perimeter of their unadorned plain “borders” serves to develop the visual illusion of a rug floating upon another rug. The expansive visual movement of the rugs’ dense interior design functions as an interesting counterpoint to the rugs’ simple plain borders. One encounters this idea in the art of 17th century Persian book covers as well in design conventions used the facades of Islamic architecture.
The design arrangements in these runners form extremely interesting images of space and movement as well. In these runners the interior lattice design filled with geometrically rendered flowers suggests the motion of design above a lattice grid.  
The rich vegetable dye colors here work brilliantly against the camel hair surround. The borders make a visual resting place in relation to the rugs’ active design interior. While these runners are over 100 years old they project an unmistakably contemporary aesthetic.
The condition of both runners is excellent. A relatively rare matching pair of antique runners

1 comment:

  1. Hiv disease for the last 3 years and having hard to eat and cough are nightmares,especially the first year. At this stage, the immune system is severely weakened, and the risk of contracting opportunistic infections is much greater. However, not everyone with HIV will go on to develop AIDS. The earlier you receive treatment, the better your outcome will be.I started taking ARV to avoid early death but I had faith in God that i would be healed someday.As a Hiv patient we are advise to be taking antiretroviral treatments to reduce our chance of transmitting the virus to others , few weeks ago i came on search on the internet if i could get any information on Hiv treatment with herbal medicine, on my search i saw a testimony of someone who has been healed from Hiv her name was Achima Abelard and other Herpes Virus patient Tasha Moore also giving testimony about this same man,Called Dr Itua Herbal treatment.I was moved by the testimony and i contacted him by his Email.drituaherbalcenter@gmail.com . We chatted and he send me a bottle of herbal medicine I drank it as he instructed me to.After drinking it he ask me to go for a test that how i ended my suffering life of Hiv patent,I'm cured and free of Arv Pills.I'm forever grateful to him Doctor Itua Herbal Treatment..He assured me he can cure the following disease..Hiv,Cancer,Herpes Virus,Hpv,Pile,Weak Erection,Lyme Disease,Epilepsy,Glaucoma.,Brain Tumor,psoriasis, Cataracts,Macular degeneration,Cardiovascular disease,Chronic Diarrhea,Lung disease.Enlarged prostate,Osteoporosis.Alzheimer's disease,
    Dementia. ,Bladder Cancer,Autism,Colorectal Cancer,Breast Cancer,Kidney Cancer,Leukemia,Lung Cancer,Tay tach disease,Non Hodgkin Lymphoma,Skin Cancer,Lupus,Uterine Cancer,Prostate Cancer, Seizures, fibromyalgia ,ALS,Hepatitis,Copd,Parkinson disease.Genetic disease,Fibrodysplasia disease,Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva,Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Syndrome,Stroke,Hpv,Weak Erection,Liver/Kidney Inflammatory,Men/Woman infertility, bowel disease ,Huntington's disease ,Diabetes,Fibroid.

    ReplyDelete