A midnight-blue field anchors this hand-knotted rug, set with a vertical pair of tribal medallions — a bold madder-red hexagon above an ivory diamond — in the manner of the Khamseh, the five-tribe confederation of southern Persia. The dark ground is crowded with the full nomadic vocabulary: botehs, eight-pointed stars, blossoms, hooks and small animal charms, drawn freehand and filled corner to corner. A 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 wool is hand-spun and coloured with natural dyes, which give the indigo, madder and saffron their depth and the gentle, light-catching variation that machine-made rugs can never reproduce. A broad saffron-gold border of bold tribal motifs, framed by ivory guard stripes, gathers the whole piece together.
Densely woven and built to last for generations, this is a collector-grade piece — equally at home as the centrepiece of a formal living or dining room or as an heirloom investment. As a hand-made rug, it is genuinely one of a kind.
- Origin: Afghanistan
- Tradition: Caucasian Shirvan / Khamseh, tribal medallion design
- Type: Afghani Sherwan, hand-knotted
- Material: 100% hand-spun wool, natural dyes
- Pile: Low, hand-clipped, with striped kilim ends
- Size: 194×296cm (Large)
- Colour: Indigo field with red and ivory medallions and a saffron-gold border
- SKU: AFGP-G 313153
- One-of-a-kind: yes