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Lotto rug

Contemporary
203 × 117 cm 6’7” x 3’10”
£7,000

Description

A beautiful replica of an antique Lotto rug produced in Sultanhani, Aksaray province, Turkey.  This production are of the highest quality, making replicas of the originals made in Transylvania in the 16th and 17th century, employing hand carded and hand spun wool, natural dyes and traditional Anatolian weaving technique.  This is a replica from the Stefano Ionesco project, using an original Lotto rug for guidance, they carefully prepare drawings, which reflects the originals knot-by-knot.

It is a very small, limited production, taking around 2 months to weave and a month to wash and finish.  We are privileged to have two rugs from the Stefano Inonescu project in our inventory.  Please view all the additional images to see the rug up close, and photos of the rug on the loom, also a photo of an ancient 17th century Lotto rug next to this replica.

More about Stefano Ionescu – he was born in 1951 in Timişoara, at the border of Transylvania, graduated in Bucharest and lives in Rome since 1975. As an independent scholar on Oriental carpets, he has dedicated almost twenty years to the study of the Anatolian rugs, starting with those which survived in Transylvania. This region continues to be the repository of the richest and best-preserved corpus of small Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world: nearly four hundred examples attributable to the golden period of Ottoman weaving, from the 16th to 18th cent.: ‘Holbein’, ‘Ushak’, ‘Lotto’, Selendi and a wealth of so-called ‘Transylvanian’ rugs.

In order to prove the Anatolian origin and to explain the presence of these rugs in Transylvania, Stefano Ionescu published a comprehensive study, Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania, with the entire collection of the Black Church, together with the most important examples from the Churches and Museums inside and outside Romania. The book was awarded the Romanian Academy Prise in the History of Art, which is a very rare event in the rug literature.

Request a home visit to view this beautiful replica of an ancient Lotto rug at home soon.  Or please do visit our barn showroom by appointment.

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A Lotto carpet is a hand-knotted, patterned Turkish carpet that was produced primarily during the 16th and 17th centuries along the Aegean coast of Anatolia, Turkey, although it was also copied in various parts of Europe. It is characterized by a lacy arabesque, usually in yellow on a red ground, often with blue details. The name “Lotto carpet” refers to the inclusion of carpets with this pattern in paintings by the 16th-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto, although they appear in many earlier Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting.

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