Camel Concentric Loribaf
Only one available — one-of-a-kind.
- Hand-knotted
- Ships from Japan
- 30-day returns
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A design of nested rectangular frames working inward from the edge, alternating light and dark: a broad chestnut outer field flecked with cream dots, a band of fine horizontal stripes, a pale camel frame, a dark brown band scattered with small cream flecks, and at the centre a plain camel panel edged with a sawtooth line. Every band is a different texture rather than a different motif. Woven without fringe, finished at the ends with a plain selvedge.
Hand-knotted in Ghazni wool. The whole rug sits in one colour family — measured, ninety-eight per cent of the surface falls in a single orange-gold range — so the frames are separated by depth alone, and the design reads as a series of light and dark rings from the centre out. At 61×90cm this is a small mat, suited to a bedside, an entrance or a wall hanging.
- Origin: India
- Type: Indian, hand-knotted
- Material: Ghazni wool
- Design: Loribaf, nested concentric frames
- Size: 61×90cm (2'0"×2'11") — Extra Small
- Colour: Camel
- SKU: MILB 121080
- One-of-a-kind: Yes
Hand-knotted in Ghazni wool, the highland fleece from central Afghanistan, valued for its long staple and natural lustre. The pile is dense and resilient, and because the design depends on how each band catches the light, the sheen of the wool is doing real work here rather than being incidental.
Large areas of this rug are plain or lightly textured, so it is less forgiving than a patterned piece — footmarks and crushing show more readily with no drawing to break them up, and the pale centre panel is the most exposed part of all.
There is no motif on this rug at all — no medallion, no gül, no flower. What it has instead is structure: five rectangular frames nested inside one another, working in from the edge to a plain panel at the centre. Measured as a brightness profile from the middle outward, they alternate. The centre panel is light, the band around it drops sharply into dark, the next frame rises to the brightest point on the whole rug, then falls away again through a mid-toned striped band into the dark outer field.
What separates one frame from the next is not colour — ninety-eight per cent of the rug sits within a single orange-gold range — but depth and texture. One band is flecked with small cream dots, another is ruled into fine horizontal stripes, another is left entirely plain, and the centre panel is edged with a sawtooth line that is the only drawn shape on the piece. It is a way of building a rug from tone and surface rather than pattern, and it is why something with no ornament at all still holds the eye: there is always another edge working inward.
Shipping & Returns
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
For a change of mind, contact us within 30 days of delivery. Items must be unused, in original condition and in original packaging. Return shipping is paid by the customer and can be expensive from outside Japan, so please ask us about size or colour before you order. If your rug arrives damaged, defective or not as ordered, contact us with photos within 30 days of delivery: we pay for the return and send a replacement or a full refund.
