Afghan War Rugs: Helicopters at Jam War Rug

Size: 3 foot by 4 foot 11 inches.

This is a very collectable older Baluch War Rug from a German Collection and should be of real interest to serious war rug collectors.

One of the highest minarets in the world stands in a valley on the Firoz Koh near the Hari Rud (river). It is the minaret of Jam. The local shepherds knew about the minarets but it was not popularly known until fairly recently but since it's discovery it has become an important symbol of freedom. The minaret with the two helicopters is a symbol of the Soviet war of aggression.

A number of years ago I wrote an article for Oriental Rug Review called Afghan War Rugs: If it Walks Like a Duck.... In it I broke a lot of new ground trying to attribute the various types of war rugs to where they were made. When I was writing that article there was a real question in my mind whether the Baluch weavers ever actually wove war rugs in any great numbers. Now a few years later I have come to the conclusion that during the war of Russian Aggression most of the "Baluchi" war rugs were not Baluch but that approximately 10 to 20% of them actually were.