ID# 1689

Date: Arrived USA November 2020

Price: $ 3500

Size: 48 x 47 inches
(121 x 119 cm)

Origin: Afghanistan

Style: Drone Medallion

Tribe: Turkman

Condition: In 2020 two piece of this design were woven. This example has uses darker colors, with a dark blue background, and a darker blue inside the medallion. Each rug uses a buff color for one quadrant of the medallion, and half the drone and the medallion background are the same color.

All the colors are very rich. The rug is heavy from the dense, high quality wool.

Condition is new and perfect.

This rug seems to be a riff on antique (and contemporary) Turkmen designs known by the name of the 19th century town where tribal and workshop rugs were consolidated, Bokara, or Bukhara. Warrug doesn't traffic in antiques, but the rug in this link is an example of an Ersari Turkment rug

Wool: There are subtle variations in the texture and softness of each color. The red is softest, followed by field blue.

Sheen: Good

Handle: Strong, sturdy, springy. Standard heavy duty foundation found in "double knotted" Turkmen rugs.

Selvedge: Happily, this selvedge is intact. It is one thick cord overcast with light blue field background color

Fringe: Persian closure. Two inch white fringe.

Pile: 4mm

Warp: White cotton

Weft: Two shoots white cotton

Warp Depression: Fully double knotted, meaning alternating warps are fully depressed