(listed as 775 in Miami U show) Full View Minaret at Jam war rug
Miami University Art Museum - 2007-09-07
Miami University Art Museum - 2007-09-07
Gallery13 - 0000-00-00
Gund Gallery at Kenyon College - 2017-05-26
Davidson College's, William H. Van Every, Jr. Gallery - 2005-01-20
| ID# 948 | Date: 1980s | -:- | Size 78 x 117 inches
(198 X297 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 9 h X 9 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Tower Landscape, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Taimani |
| This large war rug features long decorative fringes and Gul i'Barjista borders containing red and blue peacocks and poppies. The main composition features the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan and the surrounding landscape of mountains and a river. Tanks and trucks drive down the nearby road up the rug while helicopters and planes drop bombs from above. Figures in the mountains shoot rifles at the helicopter.
The bomb-dropping motif is similar to this rug and the border technique and Jam Minaret imagery is similar to this rug. |
| Wool: Soft | Sheen: Good | Handle: Floppy | Selvedge: 2 cords red and blue |
| Fringe: 9 inches of killim red, blue colors, special knots, 1 inches of fringe. Red, brown, and naturally colored geometric patterned weft substitution with thick band of red, blue, orange, and white flower shapes on brown pile. Multiple thin weft brocades in red, orange, blue, and grey. Bands of red and blue plain weave between. | Pile: 4 millimeters | Warp: Brown cotton | Weft: 2 cords black |
| Warp Depression:nearly full | |||
