Hermitage Museum Pazyryk Carpet

The pazyryk carpet was manufactured in ancient armenia or persia around 400 bc.

Hermitage museum pazyryk carpet.

Its decoration is rich and varied. The state hermitage museum. Joan aruz et al. The pazyryk rug is one of the oldest carpets in the world dating around 5th c.

The exact origin of this unique carpet is unknown. To our knowledge it is the oldest piled rug still in existence and is housed at st. Metropolitan museum of art. Petersburg russia the pazyryk rug was found in 1949 in the grave of a scythian nobleman in the bolshoy ulagan dry valley of the altai mountains in kazakhstan the pazyrk rug had been frozen in the ice and it was very well preserved.

When it was found it had been deeply frozen in a block of ice which is why it is so well preserved. The state hermitage saint petersburg and the archaeological museum ufa. The carpet can be seen at the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia. 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 central field is occupied by 24 cross shaped figures each. While focus is on scythian gold from the steppes of western asia includes sections on the pazyryk finds in the altai of southern siberia. There is a version of its iranian. There is a version of its iranian provenance.

The museum s website description of this ancient rug is as follows. One of the most remarkable finds was the pazyryk carpet. Bc now in the hermitage museum in st.