Name: Wine Sawtooth Gabbeh
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: NG 74269
Price: 943.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Wine red and royal blue sawtooth Gabbeh runner in Ghazni wool, 90×281cm

Sawtooth design in wine red and royal blue on Afghan Gabbeh runner

Border detail of wine red hand-knotted Afghan Gabbeh runner

Hand-knotted Ghazni wool pile of wine red Gabbeh runner, 90×281cm

Wine red Gabbeh runner 90×281cm, Afghanistan craftsmanship

Wine red and royal blue Gabbeh runner for a hallway, 90×281cm

One-of-a-kind wine red sawtooth Gabbeh Afghan runner

Hand-knotted wine red Afghan Gabbeh runner in Ghazni wool

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$943

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Size

90×281cm

Color — Wine

Wine

Rug material

Wool

Only one available — one-of-a-kind.

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Two colours and one line. A deep wine red field runs the length of the runner, and down the middle of it sits a royal blue panel with a sawtooth edge — a continuous zigzag of small triangular teeth, widening and narrowing slightly as it climbs. There is no border, no medallion and no repeating motif; apart from a pair of tiny hooked marks in the red at either side, the entire rug is these two fields meeting along a serrated seam.

Hand-knotted in Ghazni wool, a highland Afghan fleece with a high lanolin content that gives the surface its sheen. Both colours carry heavy abrash — wide horizontal banding where one dye lot gave way to the next — and on a design this plain that banding is most of what you look at, particularly in the blue, which shifts between ink and a lighter denim along its length. At 90×281cm this is a runner for a corridor or a landing. Two saturated colours at this scale will set the tone of a whole hallway rather than blend into it.

Origin: Afghanistan
Type: Afghani Gabbeh, hand-knotted
Material: 100% Ghazni wool
Design: Two-colour with sawtooth centre panel
Size: 90×281cm (2'11"×9'3") — Runner
Colour: Wine red and royal blue
SKU: NG 74269
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.

The abrash banding across both the red and the blue is a feature of hand-spun, small-lot dyed wool. It will not wash out or even up over time, and on a plain field it is the most visible thing about the rug — worth being certain you like it before buying. Both grounds are dark enough to hide everyday marks well, though they will show lint and pale fibres.

The sawtooth edge is the whole design, and it exists because of how a knot works. A rug is a grid: every knot sits on a warp, in a row, and a boundary between two colours can only ever run along that grid or step across it. Most weavers hide the steps, using enough knots per inch that a diagonal reads as smooth. Here the opposite decision has been made — the steps are enlarged into deliberate teeth, one triangle every few knots, so the constraint becomes the ornament. Follow the seam from one end to the other and you will see the teeth vary: slightly taller in places, slightly shallower in others, and the panel itself drifting a centimetre or two off centre. That is a gabbeh woven without a cartoon, the weaver judging the line by eye over nearly three metres. The heavy abrash in both colours belongs to the same way of working: small dye lots, changed as they run out, banding the rug horizontally.

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