War Carpet Knotted Pile - and examples of quality


Typical knotting on World Trade Center, Tora Bora, and Soviet Exodus Rugs

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Typical Knotting on good quality Red Rugs

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Average knotting on ""Good"" quality Peshawar rug

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Knotting on good quality Baghlani rug, which is unusual Turkmen production

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Knotting from a Baghlani carpet with wool foundation

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Fair quality knotting in Baluchi rugs

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Typical knotting in so-called Chechen rugs from Pakistan in the 1990s. Chechen rugs are Caucasian in desing but Turkmen in structure, as opposed to Afghan Kazaks that are Caucasian in both structure and design, employing the symetrical Turkish knot

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Knotting in large Tora Bora Rugs. Hand spun wool and medium quality knot count.

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Medium quality knotting. So-called single knotted, meaning the warps are not depressed. Note how each knot has two nodes. In rugs with depressed warps, called double knotted, one can only see one node of each knot when seen from the back.

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Typical, well knotted quality of a Najibullah war rug

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Good quality knotting from vegetable dye Peshawar rug from the 1990s

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Vegetal dye war rug knotting. These rugs are a subset of Peshawar group.

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Very good quality knotting in Chechen rug. Chechens tend to be densely knotted and Turkmen in structure. The warps in this rug are 45 degree depressed, you can see the corduroy texture as one row sits below and offset roughly 45 degrees

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45 degree warp depression

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Standard quality knotting on Baluchi rug

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Baghlani rug knotting showing minimal warp depression.

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Excellent quality knotting. About 20o kpsi

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Standard quality in small Afghan Baluchi prayer rugs.

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