Long Blue Three Drone Rug With Heavy Abrash (On Loan)
Gund Gallery at Kenyon College - 2017-05-26
| ID# 1165 | Date: Completed 2016 Received by company November 2016 Published in USA January 2017 | -:- | Size 36 x 59 inches
(92 X150 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 9 h X 9 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Three Drone War Rug, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Turkman |
| Larger rug with white drones, red outlined drones flying vertically on a blue background. Thinner white border with blue and red pattern inside followed by thicker red border with blue patterns. On outermost edge of red border is a thin rim of white before turning back into blue. Boundaries between the two borders is a small blue ring. |
| Wool: Soft wool, not dry but stiff. | Sheen: Dull sheen. | Handle: Pretty stiff, 7 on a scale of 10 (ten being incredibly densely knotted and stiff handle). | Selvedge: Two cord, flat, wool wrapped. Lefthand selvedge is darker blue and more tightly woven than right hand side. |
| Fringe: Short white fringe after Persian closure | Pile: 6mm | Warp: White cotton | Weft: Buff cotton |
| Warp Depression:60 degree warp depression, densely packed corduroy texture | |||