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For sale: Hand woven carpet from Afghanistan

Herat Traffic Circle Rug

ID# 1465
Date: 2002
Size: 36 x 57 inches
(92 x 145 cm)
Origin: Afghanistan
Style: Landscape Pictorial War Rugs
Tribe: Baluchi
Condition: New condition with residue of cutting: various stray longer threads. . Nice sheen.
Wool: Excellent fine wool with different colors having different textures. Grey in street is undyed. Blue is softest with good lanolin. Burgundy color dense and clumpy.
Sheen: Excellent, particularly for new rug. Blue has satin sheen, red more shiny luster.
Handle: Very floppy
Selvedge: Tightly braided dark brown wool or not very shiny goat hair. Exceptionally finely executed selvedge.
Fringe: Both bottom and top ends are reduced. Closed with Persian closure. Fringe kinky from being reduced out of kilim.
Pile: 4mm
Warp: Light color wool
Weft: Unusually, grey wool
Warp Depression: No warp depression, but right node of knot slightly elevated.
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet
For sale: Afghan War Rug or Conflict Carpet