Deep Blue Sky with Red Predator Drone War Rug
| ID# 1756 | Date: Woven 2015 Recieved by company December 2015 Published in USA February 2016 | -:- | Size 37 x 25 inches
(94 X63 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 9 h X 11 | Origin: Pakistan | Style: -Predator Drone, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Turkman |
| The field color of this rug is unusual in this lot of rugs. It's dark, midnight blue, giving the rug a nocturnal feel. Also, this is the only rug in the group where the main plane is so far off center. This is an armed Predator drone, of which there are fewer examples. The border is a classic Turkmen example, which represents the ethnicity of the weavers of this rug. The rug was rotated during photography to show the relative difference between the light and dark sides of the rug. When the plane's nose is pointed up, one sees the dark side; when the nose is pointed down one sees the light side. The red center plane really pops out from the blue field and the brown medium sized planes nearby. The dark blue field color of this rug is beautiful, and the white lines around the planes offset the imagery well. Traditional Turkmen border contrasts nicely with super modern imagery. The materials and craftspersonship of this rugs are excellent. The dyes are the contemporary stock of commercial vegetable dyes. The wool is Iraqi, Saudi, and Afghan wool of the highest quality. The wool has been spun by hand which preserves the natural fats (lanolin) in the wool yielding a higher quality product. |
| Wool: Excellent quality wool that is spun by hand so it is very soft, strong and lustrous. | Sheen: Excellent | Handle: Extremely stiff and strong caused by the dense knotting and the double knots (depressed warp). | Selvedge: Midnight blue wool wrap over terminal warps. |
| Fringe: Short white cotton fringe closed by Persian closure. | Pile: 4mm | Warp: White cotton | Weft: White cotton |
| Warp Depression:Mixed warp depression. All knots are offset by at least 45 degrees, but some sections are closer to 75 degrees.
Date: 2015- Documented. Received directly from the weaver in December 2015. Larger rugs in this group are dated "1393" which is 2015 in the Gregorian calendar | |||
