Golden Border War Rug with All Over Tank and Airplane Field
| ID# 1467 | Date: middle 1990s | -:- | Size 45 x 68 inches
(115 X173 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 10 h X 8 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Golden Border War Rugs (without ewers), Other examples of this style | Tribe: Baluchi |
| Like new condition. Light border wool clumpy with lanolin. The pattern of this rug is unique. Typically golden border rugs are either all over fighter jet designs, rows of tanks, or two ewer designs. This rug uniquely combines fighter jets, tanks, and |
| Wool: Very good to excellent. | Sheen: Good. Best in light border, good on blue field, less shiny on tan. | Handle: Floppy and slightly springy. | Selvedge: Good quality braided goat hair overcast. |
| Fringe: One inch blue plain weave kilim, Persian closure, light tan wool fringe. | Pile: 6mm | Warp: 2S natural tan colored wool | Weft: Two shoots grey cotton. |
| Warp Depression:75 degree warp depression, almost full | |||
