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Tow Ewer with Two Rows Each of Three Helicopters and Two Tanks |
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ID# 1060 | Date: Taliban era | -:- | Size 45 x 74 inches
(114 X188 cm) | Knots/Inch: 7 h X 10 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Golden Border War Rugs (without ewers), Other examples of this style | Tribe: Zakini |
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Excellent. Artistic use of fluorescent colors. Borders: 1 main with one outside guard stripe. Lots of nice greens and grays. Around light helicopter is natural fields with jade outline over grey outline. Different color, also natural. Thirteen separate colors: beautiful. |
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Wool: Very fatty. Appears hand spun | Sheen: Good | Handle: Firm | Selvedge: Tight two cord braided goat hair | Fringe: Half inch kilim, overhand knots, two inch fringe. | Pile: 6mm | Warp: Very lustrous natural colored wool. Better than BCT warp | Weft: Grey cotton | Warp Depression:Sixty degree warp depression |
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