If it is stock in Sydney, it will be dispatched according to guidelines above. You will receive tracking information once it has been shipped from there. If it is coming from our partner warehouse in the Netherlands, it can take up to 10 business days to arrive in our Sydney warehouse. Please note that Designer rugs (Ted Baker/Scion/Brink & Campman/Orla Kiely/Sanderson/Morris/Harlequin/Florence/Wedgwood/Bluebellgray) are stocked in both Sydney and the Netherlands. Please see more information about excluded postcodes here. Some areas are excluded from our free shipping offer. Rugs cannot be delivered to a PO Box address. Regional areas QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and All WA & NT: 6 - 10 business days. Metro areas SYD, MLB, BNE, ADL, ACT - 2 - 5 business days. The 100 polypropylene flat-weave pile is UV protected and mold and mildew resistant. Once dispatched, estimated shipping time frames are (Guide Only) A combination of vibrant and lively, neutral and natural colors with contemporary transitional patterns, this rug brings the quality and creative flexibility of indoor designs to outdoor spaces. Extensive delays for delivery in the Geelong, VIC area due to a shortage of staff.14.40.721 and 14.40.715 for two of them), but he collected seven superb examples of Indian pashmina carpets, the largest group in any collection. Not only did he own three of the Museum’s small silk "Kashan" rugs (of sixteen known worldwide see MMA nos. Benjamin Altman, the department store magnate who left the Metropolitan Museum his superb collections of old master paintings and Chinese porcelain, should also be remembered for the refinement of his taste in carpets. Classic Home Diamond Looped 3003 Gray Area Rug. Safavieh Mosaic Mos157a Beige / Charcoal Area Rug. Palmetto Living SoCal Living 9102 Fusion Lattice Natural Driftwood Area Rug. Hagaman Stylepoint Lattice Works Wrangler Area Rug. Elements in the pattern allow us to estimate the original length at more than twenty-three feet (seven meters), a great size for a carpet of this quality. Safavieh Dhurries Dhu645b Ivory - Charcoal Area Rug. The masterful weavers came to use the pile fiber just as painters use pigments, blending or juxtaposing different colors to create mottled or even shaded effects, as in the leaves of some of the large blossoms or the little hillocks and scudding cloud wisps in the border. The extremely fine weave (just over 1,000 knots per square inch) allows for sublime refinement in drawing and detail. Large fantastical blossoms are placed at the points where the vines meet, and smaller blossoms appear in the compartments as part of a secondary vine pattern. Here the field is divided into compartments, with a lattice formed by reciprocating serrated vines. The field pattern of these fragments represents a popular variation of the classic flower style, in which rows of flowers are presented in profile. Late in the century and throughout the next, the fussier millefleur style came into fashion, and floral elements became much finer in scale, sometimes clustered in repeating units. The majority of seventeenth-century examples thus reflect variations of the flower style favored at court after 1630. The earliest surviving Indian example dates from about 1620 to 1625, around the time of Jahangir’s initial infatuation with the flowers of Kashmir (see MMA no. The idea for using pashmina for carpets, and not only for shawls, seems to have originated in Iran during the second half of the sixteenth century. Pashmina had a number of advantages over silk as a pile fiber: it was strong, it allowed for an unparalleled fineness of weave, and it absorbed and reflected color at least as well as sheep’s wool. Carpet Fragment with Pattern of Latice and Blossoms Among all traditional carpet-weaving societies, northern India during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was unique in using the fine underhair of a breed of domesticated goat (Capra hircus laniger) over silk as the preferred pile material for the highest grade of carpets.
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