For sale: Hand woven carpet from Afghanistan

Original Baghlani

ID# 756
Date: 1980s
Size: 39 x 76 inches
(99 x 193 cm)
Origin: Afghanistan
Style: Baghlani War Rugs
Tribe: Turkman
Condition: Baghlani rugs are typically narrow and about six and a half feet long, like this carpet. The colors too are typical, sort of an autumnal palette. The black field is unmistakably funerary or symbolic of loss, death, and mortality.
Wool: Very good
Sheen: Good
Handle: Floppy, but tough
Selvedge: Two cord grey cotton weft wrapped
Fringe: Short wool plain weave, overhand knots, 2 inch fine wool fringe
Pile: 3mm
Warp: Grey wool, 2Z1S
Weft: Grey cotton
Warp Depression: Nearly full to almost no warp depression.
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet