{"id":982,"date":"2025-02-13T03:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiquerugstudio.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2025-03-04T02:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:27:18","slug":"ecuadorian-carpets-designed-by-olga-fisch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiquerugstudio.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/ecuadorian-carpets-designed-by-olga-fisch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuadorian Carpets Designed by Olga Fisch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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21802 Ecuadorian 11’0″ x 13’4″<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of Hungarian origin, Olga Fisch(1901-1991) emigrated in 1933, first to Morocco and in 1939 to Ecuador, head of the political instability wracking Europe. Already an artist and collector of folk art, Fisch quickly took to the local arts and crafts available in the Quito markets. She was inspired by primitive, folk, and paleolithic cave art and established a workshop creating knotted pile carpets to her individualistic and unique designs. The firm continues today, as does the museum of (primarily) Ecuadorian folk art. Only domestic sheep wool is employed and the rugs are firmly symmetrically (Turkish) knotted on a cotton foundation at a density of 60,000 knots per square metre or about 40 knots per square inch.  It took four weavers about six weeks to complete a 9\u2019 by 12\u2019 carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two carpets presented here, both from the 1950\u2019s, are in her most popular and iconic -patterns. Number 21802 is a rare oval creation with the \u201cCabalito\u201d pattern inspired by the folk embroidery on the \u201cdanzantes\u2019 participants in the Corpus Christi processions from Cotopaxi, Ecuador. A number of these costumes are in the Olga Fisch Folk Art Museum in Quito. The pattern densely fills the ivory field with mobile figures, horses and vegetal motives. It is reminiscent of certain Greek Island women\u2019s costume embroideries. Often the \u201cCabalito\u201d pattern occupies an oval or lobed section  on an otherwise plain rectangular carpet, but here is the pattern takes up almost all of the oval,  with its energetic filigree of figures, fauna and flora.<\/p>\n\n\n