Antique Ersari Ensi rug. Origin: Turkmenistan.

180 x 140 cm

This piece was woven by a woman of the Ersari Turkmen tribe, on the end of the Nineteen Century or the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Ensi pile rugs used to cover the entrance to the tent (as a woven door).
A remarkable feature of this piece is the stretched and simplified version of the ‘curled leaf’ design in the inner frame , which appears on three sides in an arch like fashion. Also interesting is the rendering of the horizontal beam of the hatchlu cross, filled with polygons containing eight pointed stars. On the outer border variation is added by the ivory boxes that are not a continuous guard, but are separated by sections filled with the dominant field color.
A very similar example was published in the book´TURKOMAN´by Uwe Jourdan, 1989, Plate 249, Page 276.

Rug Nº: 162

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