mat;
rug
- Museum number
- Eu2006,1103.44
- Description
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A floor runner, or mat (rug). Made of 2/2 twill woven chequered hemp (?) and wool fabric. Cream and grey equal sized stripes; with black wool bands (grouped in twos) alternating with predominantly brown and black wool bands. The warp ends are sewn and hand stitched. Some staining, especially towards one end, and the weft is thin in places (design fault).
- Production date
- 20thC (donor information)
- Dimensions
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Length: 217.50 centimetres
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Width: 71 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from donor: this floor runner is from the Horvath family. Several of the same pattern, usually uncoloured, are placed side by side in the 'clean room'. The Hungarian for 'clean room' is 'tista zorba'. It is usually the only room with carpets. It is seldom used, only opened up on high days and holidays when guests come; it usually smells very musty. The clean room also houses the dowry chest, bedding and pillows. Runners are also found on the floor in the corridor located at the entrance. Floor textiles tend to be uncoloured; few floor textiles have dyed fibre or fabrics, as distinct from textiles for the walls. The houses of elderly people still had earth floors with no floorboards up to the 1980s.
Over the last sixty to seventy years pink has become the main colour of this village, distinguishing it from all other villages. It is sometimes very hard to tell villages apart, if they use similar reds or burgundies.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Eu2006,1103.44
