Early Large Format Landscape Afghan War Rug
Price on request
| ID# 1082 | Date: 1980s | Price:$ 12400 | Size 81 x 112 inches
(206 X284 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 8 h X 8 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Anomaly War Rugs, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Taimani |
| The condition of this rug is excellent and virtually new despite its age. The array of plants drawn in diverse styles creates a visual rhythm drawing the viewer's eye around the carpet. The designs blends abstract imagery with rhythmic patterning.
The colors are classic Taimani with red, blue, burgundy, and an array of marled colors which give depth to the landscape. The simply drawn armor arrayed along a road in a column is common in 1980's war rugs. The architecture in the corners is an interesting accent, and the English characters suggest the rug is from later in the 1980's. The border features white sumac behind the pile medallions which is called gul-i-birjista. Slight bleeding of rust color into blue and white marled sky, otherwise condition is excellent. |
| Wool: This rugs wool is good quality and soft, both typical of Taimani gul-i-birjista rugs. | Sheen: Good | Handle: The handle is floppy. | Selvedge: Selvedge is two cords brown and indigo wool. |
| Fringe: After the pile there is a band of red plain weave then a band of weft substitution, following 3 inches of flat woven kilim in bands of alternating red, black, blue, then overhand knots and three inches of wool fringe. | Pile: Pile is 5 mm, coupled with flat weave around the border. | Warp: Natural colored wool | Weft: Two cords dark colored wool. Wool wefts are unusual in rugs made after the 1980's . |
| Warp Depression:nearly full | |||
