Name: Crimson Khal Mohammadi
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: NKM 91122
Price: 5061.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Crimson Turkmen gül Khal Mohammadi rug, 255×349cm, 6 tatami

Turkmen gül detail in crimson on Khal Mohammadi rug

Border detail of crimson Khal Mohammadi hand-knotted rug

Hand-knotted wool pile of crimson Khal Mohammadi rug

Crimson Khal Mohammadi rug 255×349cm, Kunduz craftsmanship

Crimson rug for an extra large living room, 6 tatami

One-of-a-kind crimson Turkmen gül Khal Mohammadi rug

Hand-knotted Khal Mohammadi rug in deep madder red

Corner of crimson Khal Mohammadi hand-knotted rug

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Size

255×349cm

Color — Crimson

Crimson

Rug material

Wool

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A crimson field carrying a very dense grid of small Turkmen güls, each outlined in a deeper madder and filled with rose and dark red, eleven columns across and better than twenty-six rows down. Deep multi-band borders frame the field on all four sides, running rosette cartouches, hooked repeats and fine chequered guards, and closing at both ends in a broad panel. Ivory fringe.

Hand-knotted in hand-spun wool. The gül lattice measures 14.02cm across by 9.24cm down, so the emblems are packed half again as tightly down the rug as across it. The colour is exceptionally deep throughout, the ground alone measuring 0.83 on the nought-to-one saturation scale. At 255×349cm this is a large room rug, suited to a formal living or dining room.

Origin: Afghanistan
Type: Afghan Khal Mohammadi, hand-knotted
Material: 100% hand-spun wool
Design: Turkmen gül, all-over grid
Size: 255×349cm (8'4"×11'5") — Large
Colour: Crimson with madder and rose
SKU: NKM 91122
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% hand-spun Afghan wool, naturally rich in lanolin, which gives it softness, a subtle sheen and a natural resistance to everyday dirt and spills. Hand-knotted in northern Afghanistan with an ivory fringe at both ends.

About as forgiving a rug as this catalogue holds. Two-tenths of one per cent of the surface is pale enough to count as neutral, so there is essentially nothing on it to mark, and the borders are woven deeper still than the field. The rose inside the güls is the one vulnerable colour and it is also the one carrying all their internal drawing. The ivory fringe will show soiling long before any of the pile does.

Measure the gül lattice and it comes out at 14.02cm across by 9.24cm down. Divide the field by those figures and the two answers behave quite differently. Across the width, 154.6cm of field divided by a 14.02cm pitch gives 11.02 columns — within a fiftieth of a whole number. Down the length, 247.0cm divided by a 9.24cm pitch gives 26.72, and the last course is left three-quarters finished.

That difference is not carelessness; it follows from how a rug is made. The width of a carpet is fixed before a single knot is tied — the warps are strung on the loom and cannot be added to — so the weaver can size the emblem to divide that width exactly, and here has, to a fraction of one per cent. The length is the opposite: it accumulates row by row and ends when the rug is long enough or the wool runs out, so there is no reason for it to land on a whole emblem and it rarely does. The rug is a record of both decisions. One dimension was planned in advance and solved arithmetically; the other was simply woven until it was done.

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