Early War Runner
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| ID# 1096 | Date: Early 1980's | -:- | Size 36 x 144 inches
(91 X366 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 9 h X 10 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Anomaly War Rugs, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Baluchi |
| This long runner features a field of alternating helicopters, rows of grenades, trucks, rifles, and smaller motifs. The dark colors of the motifs blend in slightly with the dark color of the field. The border consists of a large main border filled with helicopters, jets, and guns, while the smaller border is composed of rows of rifles. Small signature figure in bottom right corner in the inner guard stripe, second figure from the bottom.
There are some minor areas of moth damage, holes, and repairs in this rug. Some of the orange is bleeding into the light colors of the rug. |
| Wool: Soft, fine, short, flat | Sheen: Very shiny | Handle: Stiff but flexible | Selvedge: Two cord brown wool overcast |
| Fringe: Brown and red-brown plain weave with overhand knots | Pile: 5mm | Warp: Fine tan 2S wool | Weft: Double grey cotton thread |
| Warp Depression:Not depressed | |||
