Double Jam Minaret War Rug
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| ID# 958 | Date: 1980s | -:- | Size 77 x 118 inches
(196 X300 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 8 h X 12 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Tower Landscape, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Taimani |
| An abstracted landscape is repeated on this rug; a minaret (ghazni minaret?) stands tall in the center as trucks drive around and behind the structure. A garden of trees and plants grows on either side of the minaret, woven in pile on sumac. The background features large blue mountains with trees against a dark blue sky in which planes and helicopters fly.
The Guli'Bajista technique continues in the border with bird-shaped figures (peacocks?). The two secondary borders are pile with flower shapes. |
| Wool: Soft pile, naturally colored sumac throughout | Sheen: Good | Handle: Floppy | Selvedge: 2 cords red |
| Fringe: 6 inches killim colors blue, red, brown light and dark, Persian knots, 1 inches fringe | Pile: 5 millimeters to 0 | Warp: Brown cotton | Weft: 2 cords brown |
| Warp Depression:nearly full | |||
