It has been popular to attribute all
Polonaise rugs to Persia. While some are Persian
a significant number are made in a construction
that was never made in Persia and can only be
attributed to Mughal India.
I now believe that the Persian Polonaise rugs were woven in New
Julfa an Armenian Christian section of Isfahan. The production in
India was started by Armenian traders who had the rugs woven in India
because the cost of labor was much cheaper. Silver from the new world
was used by the Spanish who traded heavily with the Armenian merchants.
Much as the United States is seeing today money moves to where labor
costs are the cheapest. This means that we see almost identical rugs
woven in Persia and India in the same time frame. We can distinguish
the Indian rugs by the high ply count warps. In Persia warps were
generally four plies or less while in India we see ply counts greater
than five. I explore this in |
The Getty
Mughal Rug of the Polonaise Type
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 Persian Knot, Open Left, Depressed Warps
Structure: Deeply depressed
asymmetrical knot open to the left
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J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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