Spanish rug ca. 1950

Spanish rug ca. 1950.
Wool.
With label of "Patronato de la Fundación Generalísimo Franco, Industrias Artísticas de Madrid".
With numbering on the back.
Needs cleaning.
Measurements: 300 x 255 cm.

Spanish rug made of wool, with a cream-colored field of homogeneous and rhythmic composition based on plant motifs inscribed in small vegetable garlands. The border framing the central field consists of three stripes, the central one wider and decorated with a synthetic vegetal fretwork. The dominant colors are red, orange, green, blue, ochre and cream.

A representative example of the textile repertoire promoted in the post-war period under Franco's state programs for the recovery of traditional decorative arts, this carpet is part of the historicist aesthetics of the mid-twentieth century. In the specific case of Persian style carpets, they denote the desire to emulate the formal and technical repertoires of this Iranian tradition. The fidelity in the design, the quality of the knotting and the use of noble materials reveal a clear desire to reinterpret, from an institutional framework, the oriental models that for centuries nourished the European taste for the exotic and the refined.