Afghan War Rugs sold by Warrug.com

ID# 1438

Date: Late 1990s

Size: 33 x 50 inches
(84 x 127 cm)

Origin: Afghanistan

Style: Three Panel Landscape

Tribe: Taimani

Condition: Good condition. This rug appears not to have been blocked when it was washed after being woven, so it has a slightly bumpy lay. The border is a pattern one sees in published rugs from the 19th century.

This design is a later version of rugs like 1090 (Plate 25 in Pictorial War Rug Book) Plate 25 is from the early 1980s while this rugs is from the mid to late 1990s. Canada's Textile Museum in Canada exhibited an early example of this design which is also interesting because of its unusually large size.

Wool: New wool, sort and lustrous. Each color shows its own texture and luster.

Sheen: Good for new rug

Handle: Very floppy

Selvedge: Mixed wool and goat hair single cord, overcast

Fringe: Short wool kilim plain weave., overhand knots and very short fringe..

Pile: Fresh wool. 6mm

Warp: Natural undyed wool

Weft: Felt like wool, and raw wool in alternating shoots.

Warp Depression: Corduroy texture, 15 to 30 degree warp depression