Condition: The condition of this rug is good. It shows some wear, but the pile is full and complete. There are some vertical rows where pile knots show on front of rug. The rug also has a few dropped knots and a few sarnach. The main motif of men with rifles under trees is repeated and flipped once and separated by four large birds.
Wool: The wool is very good. It is dense, lustrous, and spun by hand. Some tip fading.
Sheen: Excellent.
Handle: Floppy but with strong backbone.
Selvedge: Selvedge is unusual in that it is wider and flatter than most braided goat hair overcast. The braided part faces out. Also, unusually, the selvedge looks to be a combination of goat hair and dark blue wool.
Fringe: Kilim ends are sturdy and more like carpets from before the Afghan-Soviet war. At the end of pile is an unusually thick braided floated weft. After weft float is a one inch band of very thick weft substitution which looks reduced, closed with Persian closure
Pile: Pile depth varies from 2mm to 7mm
Warp: Brown wool
Weft: Two shoots grey cotton.
