Herat Traffic Circle Rug
| ID# 1465 | Date: 2002 | -:- | Size 36 x 57 inches
(92 X145 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 8 h X 11 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Landscape Pictorial War Rugs, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Baluchi |
| 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. | |||
