No medallion and no open field — the whole runner is divided into some twenty horizontal bands, each on its own ground colour and separated by narrow cream stripes. Red, navy, gold, teal, green, coral and brown follow one another down the length, and inside every band runs a row of stylised animals: long-bodied quadrupeds with hooked necks, alternating with candelabra-like trees. The border repeats the idea in miniature, a chain of small compartments each holding a pair of animals on its own coloured ground, closed by narrow dogtooth guard stripes. Cream fringe at both ends.
Hand-knotted in Ghazni wool, a highland Afghan fleece with a high lanolin content that gives the surface its sheen. Everything is drawn rectilinearly — the animals, the trees, even the small hooks are built from right-angled steps on the knot grid. At 91×405cm this is a wide, very long runner, over four metres, so measure the corridor carefully before committing. The palette is genuinely polychrome rather than dominated by one colour, which makes this a rug that will pick up almost anything already in a room.
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Type: Hand-knotted pile rug, runner
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Material: 100% Ghazni wool
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Design: Tribal banded field with animal figures
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Size: 91×405cm (3'0"×13'3") — Runner
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Colour: Multicolour, with cream and red predominating
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SKU: RC11729
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One-of-a-kind: Yes