ID# 495

Date:

Size: 46 x 75 inches
(117 x 190 cm)

Origin: Afghanistan

Style: Horsemen War Rugs

Tribe:

Condition: (Also marked with tag 1631) This horseman rug is a great contrast to rug 2017 and shows the evolution of pattern from detailed and realistic to simplified and abstracted. The horses are headless and the figures riding them look more like cricket bats. The other animals are as abstracted, the deer have lizard-like spiked backs and teeth, and the goats and other animals stand alert with their tails stiff.

Wool: Soft

Sheen: Slight shine

Handle: Floppy

Selvedge: Tightly braided brown goat hair

Fringe: Naturally colored red-tinged wool with red and black weft brocade near the pile. Overhand knots.

Pile: 6 mm

Warp: Naturally colored wool

Weft: Double black

Warp Depression: 30 degrees