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Hand
Knotted with Coloured Wools
Dimensions: 32ft 9 x 22ft 6 9m98 x 6m88
The
design of this large and important Spanish carpet, with its
spaced, angular arabesques, was based on the 16th century
Ottoman carpets which were imported into Western Europe
during the 16th and 17th centuries. The famous "Lotto"
design, usually woven on a red ground, was enlarged and
instead woven on a golden yellow ground, with the arabesques
woven in blue. This example is perhaps the largest surviving
Cuenca carpet; most Cuenca carpets are less than ten feet in
length.
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