Hermitage Museum Pazyryk Carpet

The state hermitage museum.

Hermitage museum pazyryk carpet.

Bc now in the hermitage museum in st. Its decoration is rich and varied. The state hermitage saint petersburg and the archaeological museum ufa. Joan aruz et al.

When it was found it had been deeply frozen in a block of ice which is why it is so well preserved. The museum s website description of this ancient rug is as follows. The pazyryk carpet was manufactured in ancient armenia or persia around 400 bc. There is a version of its iranian provenance.

The carpet can be seen at the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia. While focus is on scythian gold from the steppes of western asia includes sections on the pazyryk finds in the altai of southern siberia. To our knowledge it is the oldest piled rug still in existence and is housed at st. The pazyryk rug is one of the oldest carpets in the world dating around 5th c.

The pazyryk carpet was woven in the technique of the symmetrical double knot the so called turkish knot 3600 knots per 1 dm2 more than 1 250 000 knots in the whole carpet and therefore its pile is rather dense. There is a version of its iranian. Metropolitan museum of art. The central field is occupied by 24 cross shaped figures each.

Yale university press 2000. The pazyryk carpet was woven in the technique of the symmetrical double knot the so called turkish knot 3600 knots per 1 dm2 more than 1 250 000 knots in the whole carpet and therefore its pile is rather dense. The exact origin of this unique carpet is unknown.