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3 foot 5 inch by 5 foot
3 inch
This is an antique Baluch rug. It is
very similar to a rug published in Siawosch
Azadi's Carpets
In The Baluch Tradition, Plate 53
labeled "Kurdi Baluch, Jowain,
Northeast Persia, circa 1870".
Frankly I think this rug is a little
older than Azadi's
rug and 1870 for the rug he shows is an
attribution that I find troubling. Let us
examine this. This rug copies a Salor/Saryk/Tekke Gul. The
Gul was square circa 1800 and flattened
into a rectangle circa 1880. When my
weaver copied the Gul she copied it
square indicating an earlier model. The
Gul in Azadi's
Baluch is the
flattened rectangle indicating a later
model.
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Baluch Rug,
Khorasan, Iran, 19th century. 3 foot 5 inch by 5
foot 3 inch. Structure: Asymmetrical knot open
left. 10 knots per horizontal inch and 10 knots
per vertical inch. 100 per square inch (1550 per
square decimeter). Slightly depressed.
Yarn Spin: Z.
Warp: 2 ply white wool.
Weft: 2 shots tan wool.
Ends: warp fringe When new this rug most
likely had kilim skirts which are now gone.
Selvages: 2 cord wrapped in brown wool.
Further Notes: This is an antique collectors
piece, The condition is good. The pile is low and
the rug shows areas of wear and corrosion
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Then there is the question of the
border. Azadi
shows a secondary interstitial medallion
with a lateral pole design and mine shows
a triangular secondary interstitial
medallion with latch hooks. I happen to
thing the triangular interstitial
medallion with latch hooks is older |
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The degeneration of design elements
is rather like the ripples in a pond when
a pebble is thrown in. First a small ring
then a larger and a larger and a larger
until it disappears. By taking anyone of
the rings we can calculate where the
stone was thrown in because it will be a
point equidistant from all sides. There
can not be a big ring them a smaller then
a large again, the rings must follow a
predictable and logical order. So it is
with the degeneration of design. If we
accept that the Baluch
copied from the Salor
et al then the most Turkman like rug is
most likely to be older. |
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A point of interest is the the
kilim-like end skirts. This piece most
likely had kilim skirts. One thing I
noticed about old Baluch
rugs was that they usually contain at
least some corrosive dyes. When they
start to corrode it will often affect the
kilim skirts first. |
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| For Further Reading: Guide to Rugs & Books
Azadi,
Siawosch. Carpets In The Baluch Tradition.
Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1986
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