War Carpet Designs: Border

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The main, or center, border in this rug is typically Taimini. The white border and eight pointed stars are what make it Taimani.

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Corner section of Bomber/Copter/Tank rug. Secondary designs, flowers, make this border particularly nice.

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This photos shows a tree of life motif running inside the border one each side of the rug.

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This a not uncommon border design in Baluchi rugs. It lacks a main border, but rather features three quard strip width borders, again not uncommon in Baluchi rugs of all styles.

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Taimani single border.

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Equal thickness tripple border

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One group of rugs, featuring a particular wool and single cord wool overcast selvedges feature this border.

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Very old border

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Traditional Baluchi border, seen most often in Pixelated rugs and Speckled field rugs

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Mushwani border with repeated mosques.

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Tank border from Afghan Baluchi rug

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Beautiful classic border from good quality Afghan Baluchi rugs

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Traditional Turkmen border with bullet skirt.

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Al Kwaja border. Beshir Turkmen.

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Antique border design

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Old time border design on modern rug

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Mushwani border motif

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Mushwani border design

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This border dates to at least the 19th century

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This border is also dates to at least the 19th century

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This is a not very interesting border design.

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This border, while thin, employs good use of color.

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Wheeled APC border design on Ghazni red rug.

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Bullet border common on red rugs from the 1990s made in Pakistan

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Classic grape vine border

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Old style weapons border

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Contemporary style border.

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Note glitch. This is a Turkmen design border, but colors and pattern are not typically Turkmen, so….

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Golden Border, note stylized helicopters, and checkerboard guard stripe.

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Distinct border from south central Afghanistan

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Same weaver as rug 29

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Note fluorescent green and bleeding.

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Stylized tank border

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Zakini border, medium quality.

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Note inclusion of guard stripes on this very high quality rug, although border drawing jumpy.

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Asymmetrical, elaborate border, consistent with extremely good quality of this rug.

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Classic ""Golden Border"" with guns-up retreating tanks and super stylized helicopters.

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Best type of border. Note grape vine main border, and two very special, and wide, guard stripes.

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Butterfly plastic mine border seen on some rugs from Pakistan.

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Traditional sumac border with extra inner main border of beautifully rendered bombers.