River Landscape prayer rug, early 1980s Exhibited Miami U
Gund Gallery at Kenyon College - 2017-05-26
| ID# 757 | Date: early 1980s | -:- | Size 36 x 64 inches
(91 X162 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 8 h X 10 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Landscape Pictorial War Rugs, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Baluchi |
| High quality rug from the early 1980s in excellent condition. The brown wool is undyed and of unusually dense character. |
| Wool: Dense and soft. | Sheen: Even sheen with a satin finish | Handle: Floppy but dense and substantial. | Selvedge: The top half of the rug has a navy blue goat hair braided selvedge while the bottom has a red selvedge. Selvedges on the fringe are black. High quality with some damage and unraveling. |
| Fringe: Unclosed ends, it looks like parts of the kilim ends were removed to match areas where wear had occurred. | Pile: 5mm | Warp: Short naturally colored wool | Weft: Grey double wefted cotton thread |
| Warp Depression:Corduroy approaching fully depressed | |||
