Antique Turkish Sivas Pictorial Rug

A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. A one-lira Turkish note rendered in wool, with a beige field and legible black calligraphy indicating the National Bank and the Secretary of the Treasury. The Sultanic tugra in the upper border indicates that it was issued before the revolution that removed the Ottoman dynasty from power. A light blue-grey filigree border frames the whole.