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RARE~19th Century~WANGDEN SEATING MAT~Rug Carpet~TIBET
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This is a rare, late-19th to early-20th Century, hand-woven, warp-faced, Wangden sitting carpet from Tibet. Gorgeous, muted natural vegetal, cochineal and real indigo dyes. Beautifully woven with traditional, central swastika motif, and copious trademark indigo fringe. Very thick and comfortable, and too heavy for nomadic applications, these are sought after for use in Vajrayana Buddhist monasteries for seating. I was told that this carpet was originally from a Kagyu monastery in the Wangden Valley. Read below for interesting history concerning this unique style of weaving. I would grade condition as "good" for a weaving that's over 100 years old, with all-over soiling (no stains), a few holes, some moth damage and shedding. The carpet could use a good cleaning, and would definitely be worth restoring, but it is useable as-is.
Roughly square, the piece measures about 38 X 40 inches. (Shipping costs are higher for this item due to weight and bulk.) Check out my other items ! "Wangden" is the name of a remote river valley in the Tsang province ofSouthern Tibet. In the valley t are 22 villages, some comprised ofonly a few households, and 3 monasteries. The valley runs north to south, beginning roughly 25 kilometers south of Penam Xian, on the main road between Shigatse and Gyantse. Wangden was once famous throughout Tibet for its unique style of carpet weaving, practiced now else in Tibet, and in great demand by monasteries from Lhasa to Amdo to Ladakh. Wangden carpets were used as meditation mats by the Fifth Dalai Lama, and every year a new set of Wangden runners was woven for use by monks participating in the Great Monlam Prayer Festival in Lhasa, the first and largest religious gathering of the Tibetan Buddhist year. Known as "Wangden Drumse," these carpets are technically and aesthetically distinct from the more common "Drumse" or "Gamdrum" carpets produced in the rest of Tibet. According to local oral traditions as well as the opinion of some Western rug scholars and enthusiasts - they were the first type of knotted pile rug ever woven in Tibet. Wangden carpets differ from other knotted Tibetan carpets in both structure and design: structurally, the knotting method is distinct and the rug backing is "warp-faced." Aesthetically, as a group they represent what is according to legend an ancient, strictly-preserved canon of designs, adhering to rigid knot-counting, arid color schemes in honor of a former Wangden Lama Jian Teppe Genshe with whom the designs (and the weaving tradition itself) are associated. 
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