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The 'Nigde' Carpet
18th century
- Medium
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); symmetrically knotted pile
- Classification
- Textiles-Rugs
- Dimensions
- Rug: H. 298 in. (755.7 cm) W. 121 1/2 in. (308.6 cm) Tube: H. 128 in. (325.1 cm) W. 10 in. (25.4 cm)
- Culture
- probably Northwestern Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1956
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
