Small Pictorial #6
| ID# 227 | Date: 1991-1993 | -:- | Size 32 x 56 inches
(81 X142 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 7 h X 10 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Herat South View of Mosque, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Taimani |
| The condition of this older pictorial rug is very good with one caveat: there is a two inch by 1.5 inch section on the top near the fringe with moth damage. The wool is excellent and the design a classic. The image is an armored column rolling through the streets of a town, probably the old city of Herat. There is foliage and a chicken in the foreground, then a road with abstracted armor, then a city scene with a mosque. Behind the city are mountains with anti aircraft positions, and above the mountains is the sky with airplanes. |
| Wool: Very nice, soft and lustrous. | Sheen: Very good. Satin. | Handle: Floppy | Selvedge: Braided goat hair overcast |
| Fringe: 1.5 inch kilim with braided sumac band and tufts of decorative fringe. The bottom has a braided closure of the kilim while the top has no closure, just loose fringe | Pile: 5mm fine wool | Warp: Natural wool | Weft: Grey cotton |
| Warp Depression:not depressed | |||
