Name: Sand Stripe Gabbeh
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: NG 74267
Price: 781.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Sand and slate blue stripe Gabbeh runner in Ghazni wool, 77×306cm

Stripe design in sand and slate blue on Afghan Gabbeh runner

Border detail of sand and slate blue hand-knotted Gabbeh runner

Hand-knotted Ghazni wool pile of sand stripe Gabbeh runner, 77×306cm

Sand stripe Gabbeh runner 77×306cm, Afghanistan craftsmanship

Sand and slate blue stripe runner for a hallway, 77×306cm

One-of-a-kind sand and slate blue stripe Gabbeh Afghan runner

Hand-knotted sand Afghan Gabbeh runner with slate blue stripes

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Size

77×306cm

Color — Sand

Sand

Rug material

Wool

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A plain gabbeh runner in undyed-looking sand, with almost nothing on it: two fine slate blue lines near one end, two darker lines near the other, and otherwise an open field. What fills that field is abrash — soft horizontal banding where the wool shifts between warmer and cooler, paler and deeper, in wide irregular bands running the full width. It is not a pattern the weaver drew; it is the wool itself showing through.

Hand-knotted in Ghazni wool, a highland Afghan fleece with a high lanolin content that takes light well and gives the surface its faint sheen. The pile is left long and the drawing minimal, which is the point of a gabbeh: the material does the work. At 77×306cm this is a true runner — long enough for a corridor, a galley kitchen or the side of a bed. A plain field shows footmarks and vacuum tracks more readily than a patterned one, and shows a spill very clearly, so this is a rug for a hallway rather than a dining room.

Origin: Afghanistan
Type: Afghani Gabbeh, hand-knotted
Material: 100% Ghazni wool
Design: Plain with stripe accents and natural abrash
Size: 77×306cm (2'6"×10'0") — Runner
Colour: Sand with slate blue stripes
SKU: NG 74267
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% Ghazni wool, hand-knotted, with a natural fringe at both ends. Wool is resilient and forgiving underfoot, and the lanolin in a highland fleece like this one gives it a degree of natural resistance to soiling.

A plain pale field is less forgiving than a patterned one: footmarks, vacuum tracks and spills all show more clearly with no pattern to break them up. The abrash banding is a feature of the wool, not a fault, and it will not wash out or even up over time. A runner in a corridor takes concentrated traffic down its centre, so use a rug pad and rotate it end for end regularly.

The banding across this rug is abrash, and it is worth knowing how to tell it from a stripe the weaver intended. Abrash happens because hand-spun wool is dyed in small lots: one batch takes the dye a shade deeper than the next, and when the weaver reaches the end of a batch and ties on the new one, the change shows as a band running the full width of the rug. Its edges are soft and slightly uneven, because the switch happens knot by knot across the row. Compare that with the two blue lines near the end — hard-edged, uniform, clearly drawn. On a patterned rug abrash is something to be hidden. On a gabbeh, where the field is deliberately left empty, it becomes the entire design, and a weaver will sometimes stretch a dye lot or hold one back to place a band where it will read best. The wool is Ghazni, a highland fleece kept long in the pile so the lanolin stays in and the surface catches light.

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