A Museum or Gallery Exhibition of War Rugs

ID# 387	Date: Late 1980s, early 1990s	-:-	Size 75 x 115 inches (190 X292 cm)
Knots/Inch: 14 h X 13	Origin: Afghanistan	Style: -Ali Kwaja, Other examples of this style

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.
Warp Depression:Full warp depression