Name: Oxblood Bashiri Gül
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: MBS 10865
Price: 3089.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Oxblood Turkmen gül Bashiri rug, 197×289cm, about 3 tatami, hand-knotted

Turkmen gül motifs on oxblood Bashiri Afghan wool rug

Border detail of oxblood Bashiri hand-knotted Afghan rug

Hand-knotted wool pile of oxblood Bashiri rug, 197×289cm

Oxblood Bashiri wool rug 197×289cm, Afghanistan craftsmanship

Oxblood Bashiri rug for a living room, about 3 tatami

One-of-a-kind oxblood Bashiri Afghan hand-knotted rug

Hand-knotted oxblood Bashiri rug with repeating Turkmen güls

Fringe of oxblood Bashiri Afghan wool rug

Oxblood Afghan Bashiri rug, 197×289cm, hand-knotted wool

Corner of oxblood Bashiri hand-knotted Afghan rug

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Size

197×289cm

Color — Oxblood

Oxblood

Rug material

Wool

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A deep wine field packed with small Turkmen güls, each outlined in dark madder and filled with pale rose and cream hooks, set so closely that barely a tenth of the field remains open ground. Very deep multi-band borders on an oxblood ground frame the panel on all four sides, carrying hooked repeats, fine chequered guards and scattered cream flecks, and closing at the lower end in a striped woven band. Ivory fringe.

Hand-knotted in hand-spun wool. The gül lattice measures 17.0cm across by 15.8cm down — within eight per cent of square, which is unusual in this tradition. At 197×289cm this is a large room rug, suited to a living or dining room.

Origin: Afghanistan
Type: Afghan Khal Mohammadi, hand-knotted
Material: 100% hand-spun wool
Design: Bashiri, all-over Turkmen gül on a square lattice
Size: 197×289cm (6'6"×9'6") — Large
Colour: Oxblood and wine red with pale rose
SKU: MBS 10865
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 with an ivory fringe and a striped woven band at the lower end.

About as forgiving as a rug gets. The colour is exceptionally deep — half the wool on this rug measures above 0.73 on the nought-to-one saturation scale — and under half a per cent of the surface is pale enough to count as neutral, so there is almost nothing to mark. The pale rose inside the güls is the one vulnerable colour and it carries all their internal drawing. The ivory fringe will show soiling long before the pile does.

Gül rugs are almost never square. The emblem is normally drawn wider than it is tall and the lattice follows, which is why most fields of this kind read as rows first and columns second. Measure this one and the lattice comes out at 16.99cm between columns and 15.75cm between rows — an aspect of 1.08, within eight per cent of a true square. The harmonics confirm it rather than the reverse: going down the field the pattern matches itself at 15.8, 31.5, 47.3 and 63.0cm, clean multiples with no drift.

On a square lattice the eye stops picking a direction. Rows and columns carry equal weight, the diagonals become as legible as the straights, and the field reads as a single woven surface rather than as ranks of emblems marching down the rug. The weaver has pushed that further by packing the güls until under a tenth of the field is open ground — there is almost no red left showing between them. The result is a field with no internal rhythm to follow, which is why the very deep borders matter so much here: they take nearly sixty per cent of the rug, and they are what gives the eye somewhere to start.

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