D3110 - Very Fine Tribal Sivas

D3110 - Very Fine Tribal SivasSize 230 x 175 cm, 7'7 x 5'9 Hand made in Afghanistan from hand spun wool and natural dyes This rug contains approximately 805000 knots, and would have taken 134 days to weave and finish These rugs are Turkoman tribal rugs from Northern Afghanistan using local Ghazni hand spun wool, which is probably the best wool in the world for hand knotted rugs. These Hazara tribes people are mostly Shia Muslim and badly persecuted by the Taliban majority.

This rug contains approximately 149072 knots

and would have taken 30 days to weave and finish

Although these rugs are flat weaves

Hand-made in Kazakstan from handspun Ghazni wool

Khal Mohammadi had a business as Master Dyer in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan around 180 years ago

This rug contains approximately 112812 knots

They tend to be all-over geometric designs using typical dark reds and blues for colouration though beige is also found

This rug contains approximately 351648 knots

Our Indo-Soumak Final Clearance rugs now include underlay

He started to commission a much higher grade of Afghan carpet using traditional and more unusual Afghan tribal designs that he thought would die out if not reproduced at that time

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