ID# 387
Date: Late 1980s, early 1990s
Size: 75 x 115 inches
(190 x 292 cm)
Condition: Perfect
Wool: Best quality
Sheen: Very good
Handle: Very floppy
Selvedge: Two cord black flat two cord wool wrapped
Fringe: Tightly woven kilim ends, both light orange colored with some irregularity in color. Kilim ends have corduroy texture from warp depression continuing -unusually- from pile. Twisted closure followed by overhand knots and most fringe bunched together. At the end of pile and beginning of kilim end is a double strand braided weft float. Fringe at top more orange than fringe at bottom.
Pile: 3mm
Warp: 2S wool with orange tinge, mostly twisted together grouped by overhand knot closures. This fringe is even finer - smaller gauge- than other Ali Kwaja rugs. All warps are the same color.
Weft: Double black throughout pile. Natural color wefts on both kilim ends, also tinged orange.
