Three Big Tanks, Six Small Helicopters and Car Border
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| ID# 1477 | Date: 2007 | -:- | Size 32 x 59 inches
(81 X150 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 7 h X 7 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Late Car Style (2010's and beyond), Other examples of this style | Tribe: Baluchi |
| The strong design and bold colors employed in this rug make it a beautiful example of a contemporary war rug. The car border is a good indication of a rug woven since 2003. (The predominance of cars in patterns where they were not previously found could be caused by what Kevin Sudeith calls the ""feedback loop"". The ""feedback loop"" is where internet based discussions about war rugs in turn influence production of the newest war rugs. In this example, warrug.com has name a style of war rugs ""Car Style"". Car styel do include cars, but were more disntinctive for their exceptionally fine, lustrous, and translucent wool. The new rugs may emmulate the car motifs, but they fail to employ the distinctive wool of 1980's war rugs.) Digression aside, this rug shows strong desing and good color. White outlines work well at getting tanks to pop, while brown helicopters push helicopters back in pictorial space. |
| Wool: Good plush wool in thick singlets. | Sheen: Unusually bright shine throughout different colors. | Handle: Floppy, but stronger and springier than most. | Selvedge: One cord blue braided overcast. |
| Fringe: Full kilim ends with overhand knots and short fringe. Kilim ends are blue and pink at bottom, blue and red at top. | Pile: 5mm | Warp: Coarse brown wool, loosely spun. | Weft: Thin strands of grey cotton. |
| Warp Depression:No warp depression. Both warps sit on same plane. | |||
