Name: Cherry Red Bokhara
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: ME 813241
Price: 4681.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Cherry red Turkmen gül Bokhara Sherwan Afghan rug, 281×371cm, 6 tatami

Turkmen gül motifs on cherry red Afghan Sherwan wool rug

Border detail of cherry red hand-knotted Afghan Sherwan rug

Hand-knotted wool pile of cherry red Sherwan rug, 281×371cm

Cherry red Sherwan wool rug 281×371cm, Afghanistan craftsmanship

Cherry red Bokhara design rug for an extra large room, 6 tatami

One-of-a-kind cherry red Afghan Sherwan hand-knotted rug

Hand-knotted cherry red Sherwan rug with repeating Turkmen güls

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$4,681

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Size

281×371cm

Color — Cherry Red

Cherry Red

Rug material

Wool

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A cherry red field carrying six files of quartered Turkmen güls, each a rounded octagon divided by a cross and filled with curled hooks, with stepped cruciform devices standing in the channels between them. Deep multi-band borders on a darker brick ground frame the field on all four sides, closing at both ends in a wide elem panel of diagonal lattice. Ivory fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in Pakistan in wool. Just over 70% of the field is open ground, so the emblems read as separate rather than as a continuous texture. At 281×371cm this is a very large room rug, suited to a formal living or dining room. Finished with elem panels at both ends.

Origin: Pakistan
Type: Pakistani Bokhara, hand-knotted
Material: 100% wool
Design: Turkmen gül, quartered octagon
Size: 281×371cm (9'3"×12'2") — Large
Colour: Cherry red throughout
SKU: ME 813241
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% wool, naturally rich in lanolin, which gives it softness, a subtle sheen and a natural resistance to everyday dirt and spills. Hand-knotted in Pakistan with an ivory fringe and a woven elem panel at each end.

Practically this is about as robust as a rug gets. Under a third of one per cent of the surface is pale enough to count as neutral, so there is essentially no light wool to mark, and the border ground is darker still than the field. The fringe is the exception and will show soiling long before the pile does. At more than ten square metres this is a heavy rug; plan how it will be moved before it goes down.

Run a colour census over this rug and only one family clears three per cent of the surface. Red takes 95.7%. Everything else — every other hue on the rug put together — comes to just over four. That is a genuinely unusual result. Most rugs of this kind return two or three families above the threshold, and a rug needs five to be called multicolour.

What makes it stranger is that the rug does not look monochrome. The güls appear to be picked out in ivory and indigo in the usual Turkmen way. Sample them and the ivory measures as a dusty rose, closest to that swatch at a distance of 5.96, while blue registers at 0.02% of the entire surface — effectively nothing. The pale wool is pink and the dark wool is a very deep red. So the emblems are separated from their ground almost entirely by how light or dark the wool is, not by what colour it is. That is why the rug reads as warm from any distance and why, on an overcast day or under a low lamp, the pattern softens rather than sharpening: take away the light and you take away most of the contrast the design has to work with.

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