A deep indigo field carries this hand-knotted rug as an all-over garden lattice — a trellis of linked diamond compartments, each framing a single stylised flowering plant in the tribal Shirvan manner. Worked in madder red, gold, ivory and soft blue against the midnight ground, the repeating cells read like a walled garden seen from above, the oldest and most enduring of weaving subjects. A distinctive band of multi-coloured striped kilim finishes each end, the mark of a true tribal flatwoven foundation.
It is hand-knotted in Afghanistan by master weavers working in the older Caucasian Shirvan tradition, with a fine, even knot count, a low clipped pile and flat-woven kilim ends. The indigo and madder have depth and a gentle, light-catching variation that machine-made rugs can never reproduce. A broad madder-red border of bold palmettes, framed by guard stripes of linked diamonds, gathers the whole piece together.
Densely woven and built to last, this is a collector-grade piece — at home as the centrepiece of a formal living or dining room. As a hand-made rug, it is genuinely one of a kind. The pile is low, hand-clipped, with striped kilim ends.
- Origin: Afghanistan
- Type: Afghani Sherwan, hand-knotted
- Material: 100% wool
- Design: Caucasian, garden-lattice design
- Size: 217×300cm (7'1"×9'10") — Large
- Colour: Navy Blue
- SKU: AFGP-G 313109
- One-of-a-kind: Yes
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