Original Baghlani
Miami University Art Museum - 2007-09-07
| ID# 756 | Date: 1980s | -:- | Size 39 x 76 inches
(99 X193 cm) |
| Knots/Inch: 9 h X 10 | Origin: Afghanistan | Style: -Baghlani War Rugs, Other examples of this style | Tribe: Turkman |
| Baghlani rugs are typically narrow and about six and a half feet long, like this carpet. The colors too are typical, sort of an autumnal palette. The black field is unmistakably funerary or symbolic of loss, death, and mortality. |
| Wool: Very good | Sheen: Good | Handle: Floppy, but tough | Selvedge: Two cord grey cotton weft wrapped |
| Fringe: Short wool plain weave, overhand knots, 2 inch fine wool fringe | Pile: 3mm | Warp: Grey wool, 2Z1S | Weft: Grey cotton |
| Warp Depression:Nearly full to almost no warp depression. | |||
