A deep madder-red field carries this hand-knotted rug, covered corner to corner with the hooked diamond güls of the Yomut Turkmen — row upon row of small serrated medallions locked into a fine diagonal lattice, in ivory, indigo and dark brown against the glowing red ground. Broad skirt (elem) panels of stepped diamonds finish each end, the traditional signature of a Turkmen weaving. The discipline of the endless repeat is the design.
It is hand-knotted in Afghanistan by master weavers working in the older Turkmen and Caucasian traditions, with a fine, even knot count, a low clipped pile and flat-woven kilim ends. The madder red has depth and a gentle, light-catching variation that machine-made rugs can never reproduce. Multiple ivory and gold guard borders of geometric tribal motifs frame the field and draw the whole piece together.
Densely woven and built to last, this is a collector-grade piece — at home as the centrepiece of a formal living or dining room. As a hand-made rug, it is genuinely one of a kind. The pile is low, hand-clipped, with kilim ends.
- Origin: Afghanistan
- Type: Afghan Khal Mohammadi, hand-knotted
- Material: 100% wool
- Design: Turkmen, Yomut hooked-gül design
- Size: 205×293cm (6'9"×9'7") — Large
- Colour: Red
- SKU: AFGP 443
- One-of-a-kind: Yes
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