Name: Espresso Prayer Saf
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: R8251082
Price: 372.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Taupe and pink three-colour saf rug, 62×190cm, entrance mat size

Saf arched niche detail in taupe and pink on Pakistani rug

Border detail of taupe pink saf hand-knotted Pakistani rug

Hand-knotted wool pile of taupe pink saf rug, 62×190cm

Taupe pink saf rug 62×190cm, Pakistani craftsmanship

One-of-a-kind taupe and pink saf Pakistani entrance mat

Hand-knotted taupe rug with three-colour saf niches

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$372

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Size

62×190cm

Color — Espresso

Espresso

Rug material

Wool

Only one available — one-of-a-kind.

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An espresso-framed field divided into a row of nine pointed prayer niches, each holding a hanging lamp and each set on its own ground — gold, sage green and pink in strict rotation down the length. Every niche is edged with a row of small dark comb devices. Multi-band borders of star repeats, rosettes and small hooked forms in taupe, pink, green and black frame the whole, with a wide patterned band closing each end. Cream fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in wool to the 9/16 quality. The niches run in a strict three-colour cycle — gold, green, pink, then gold again — repeated three times without a break or a substitution. At 62×190cm this is a small narrow rug, suited to a hallway, a bedside or a wall hanging. Woven at 9/16.

Origin: Pakistan
Type: Pakistani high quality, hand-knotted
Material: 100% wool
Design: Saf — repeating mihrab prayer niches in a three-colour rotation
Size: 62×190cm (2'0"×6'3") — Runner
Colour: Espresso
SKU: R8251082
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% wool pile, hand-knotted to the 9/16 quality, with a natural fringe at both ends. The grade refers to knots counted per inch in each direction — a mid-range Pakistani quality, fine enough to keep the small comb devices edging each niche crisp.

A pale taupe ground is less forgiving than a dark or red rug: footmarks and vacuum tracks show more readily across the open areas between the niches. The gold niches are the palest of the three and will grey first, which would break the rotation visually before the other two are affected.

This is a saf — a communal prayer rug carrying a row of mihrab niches rather than a single one, so that several people can use it side by side. What is worth counting here is the colour. There are nine niches, and their grounds run gold, sage green, pink, gold, sage green, pink, and so on to the end: a strict three-colour rotation repeated three times, with no niche ever adjacent to another of the same colour and no substitution anywhere in the sequence.

That is a harder discipline to keep than it sounds. Each niche is woven in turn from one end of the rug to the other, and by the time the weaver reaches the ninth the first is more than a metre and a half behind and long since rolled out of sight on the loom. Holding a three-step cycle across that distance means counting rather than looking. Check it yourself from either end and you will find the rotation unbroken — and note that nine divides exactly by three, so the sequence finishes complete rather than being cut off mid-cycle at the border.

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Shipping
We ship from Japan to the United States, the United Kingdom and 19 European countries. Shipping is free on orders of ¥150,000 or more (approx. $1,000 / £790 / €920); orders below that ship at a ¥15,000 flat rate (approx. $99 / £79 / €92). Each rug is carefully rolled and wrapped. Orders are dispatched within 3 to 5 business days, then take 7 to 15 business days in transit. Every order ships with tracking. Import duties and taxes may apply in your country; please contact us before ordering for details.

Returns
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