ID# 1157

Date: Completed 2016<br> Received by company November 2016<br> Published in USA January 2017 <br>

Size: 24 x 37 inches
(61 x 94 cm)

Origin: Afghanistan

Style: Predator Drone

Tribe: Turkman

Condition: Perfect. One of three rugs (2/3) of this pattern which bears structural differences from the Reaper drones (1151, 1156, 1158).

The border on this rug is Turkmen with the colors altered to fit the palette of this red, white, and blue rug.

Wool: Good

Sheen: Good

Handle: Stiff and strong

Selvedge: Different from other light color rugs in the batch. Both selvedges on this rug are two cord flat and do not stick out very far.

Fringe: Short white cotton, Persian closure

Pile:

Warp: white cotton

Weft: Double wefted light buff color

Warp Depression: Forty five degrees off set warps, so roughly half depressed Received from weavers November 2016. Larger rugs from this group were dated 1395.