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Portuguese Needlepoint
Circa 1940
290 × 197 cm9’6” x 6’5”
£7,500
Description
A wonderful simple yet elegant lattice floral pattern on this Portuguese carpet with the softest of natural colours, using two different shades of green, off white tones, and tiny hints of muted yellow in the border leaves. Such a pretty needlepoint to work a scheme around for a drawing room or bedroom for example. These Portuguese needlepoints are renowned for their embroidered work in wool on linen. Portugal doesn’t have an extensive history in producing hand-woven carpets although Moorish carpet weavers worked in Portugal until the early 15th century until they were expelled.
Condition is smart, with lots of the loop original fringe still showing round the majority of this needlepoint and structure is all very good too. This piece has been gently cleaned, and it has refreshened up well, however some old minimal staining is still visible in places, but hard to see when looking across the rug on the floor. We could maybe improve on them further with more time spent on them at the cleaning workshop, but you have to be careful due to the nature of needlepoints construction and this piece is around 80 years old.
Arraiolos is where these Portuguese needlework carpets are from a town in the province of Alto Alentejo in southern Portugal. The weave on this needlepoint is Arraiolos long-armed cross-stitch along with hand dyed wool using natural dyes. The Portuguese are also known for weaving specific types of Portuguese rugs that are called Alpujarra Rugs. These floor coverings from Portugal are unique and feature pile in loops, made primarily in Spain from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century in the Alpujarras district, which is located south of Granada.
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A beautiful Portuguese needlepoint rug woven using the traditional long-armed cross-stitch the same way these rugs have been made for centuries. Woven by Jews who landed in Arraiolos, in the southern part of Portugal. Women brought their knowledge of needlepoint with them and began creating carpets to sell to make a living. History and journals from the Renaissance talk about groups of women in the Arraiolos village working together outside under the shade of trees creating these needlepoint carpets.
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