{"title":"Afghanistan Rugs","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bokhara-afghanistan-206x297cm-sku6","title":"Vintage Afghan Bokhara Wool Rug, Turkoman Gul, 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintage hand-knotted Afghan Bokhara, also called Turkoman. Woven about 1980. Size 297 × 206 cm. 100% wool, vegetable dyes, high knot density.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the wool is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurkoman families have used sheep’s wool for generations. Tight pile holds dye in the yarn so the red stays rich. High knot density keeps each small gul sharp on a large field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the real world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gul carpet. A gul is the Turkoman emblem, an octagon or diamond of hooks, like a family seal. Rows of guls on a madder-red field are many houses, many hearths. The border of hanging vines and running guards is the edge of camp. A large room rug for gathering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach gul is belonging. Hooks are protection. Red is life and celebration. Navy inside the guls is night. Repeated down the field, the gul becomes a garden of families, not one flower in the middle. Order, tribe, a guarded home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurkoman weavers kept the gul so a rug could be read across generations. Repeating it evenly on a piece this size is discipline and pride. The gul is identity woven into daily floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. 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Fine knotting at this size is rare: every palmette stays sharp across nearly three metres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the real world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA night garden held in geometry. Hooked palmettes, rosettes, and angular blossoms stand in ranks on an indigo-teal field. The red border is the garden wall, walked with gold palmettes. This is a formal room carpet: readable from the door, rewarding up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHooks enclose. Rosettes are hearths. The dark field is depth. Rank and repeat say creation has a center. When the border turns at all four corners, the weaver has closed the world of the rug, the house is whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFine Kazak workshop work is a high craft: Caucasian grammar, mountain wool, a loom team that can hold a three-metre repeat. Corner resolution is pride. Ghazni wool is chosen because the drawing deserves a fiber that will outlast the first owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrand new. One of a kind. Free worldwide shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rug Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663743991964,"sku":"4","price":4499.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/9468\/3804\/files\/d3333c5f-fe1a-4bf4-967f-3c673d7762dd.webp?v=1790061265"},{"product_id":"afghanistan-94x146cm-sku3","title":"Vintage Baluch Wool Prayer Rug, Tree of Life, Natural Dye","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintage hand-knotted Baluch prayer rug, about 50 years old. Size 146 × 94 cm. 100% wool, wool foundation, natural dyes. Nomadic Baluch weavers of Baluchistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the wool is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBaluch wool is strong, dry, and dense, camp wool, spun by hand, dyed with plants. It is made to be knelt on and walked on, not to look like a factory plush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the real world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA prayer rug in tree-of-life form. Madder-red field. A dark navy tree down the center: stacked diamonds, hooks, paired rising shapes. Around it, small stars, latch-hooks, animal-like figures, flock, watchfulness, a guarded camp. The ivory-and-brown border is the compound wall around the tent. A compact rug for prayer, bedside, or wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tree is the path between earth and heaven. The lower part is ground and flock. The middle is the living house. The top is sky. The paired rising shapes are read as arms or hands lifted in prayer, a body turned upward asking for mercy and protection. Red is life. Navy is night and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBaluch families wove their signs into small rugs they could roll and carry. The tree and the hooks are a portable shrine: protection on the move. Finishing the border so it holds the prayer is the weaver’s closing word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Free worldwide shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rug Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663744843932,"sku":"3","price":899.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/9468\/3804\/files\/fd599d04-c46e-429e-87a5-fb94773eef7d.webp?v=1790061262"},{"product_id":"bokhara-afghanistan-206x297cm-sku1","title":"Vintage Afghan Bokhara (Turkmen) hand-knotted rug, 297 × 206 cm","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintage hand knotted Afghan Bokhara rug, also called Turkmen or Bokhara after the historic trading city. Woven in Afghanistan around 1980. Size 297 × 206 cm (approx. 9 ft 9 in × 6 ft 9 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is made\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a hand knotted pile rug: each knot is tied by hand onto the warp, then the weft is packed, and the pile is sheared. A piece this size is weeks to months of work, not a machine pass. 100% wool pile on a sturdy foundation. Wool gives a soft hand, natural insulation, and long wear. Vegetable dyes were used for the red field and the dark guls. Plant dyes age in a living way. Slight variation in the red is normal and part of the piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe repeating octagonal medallions are the classic Turkmen gul, often called the elephant foot gul in the trade. They are tribal emblems, not random decoration. Each gul type is linked to a Turkmen group and was used on main carpets that showed household identity. The deep red field with navy and rust guls, multiple geometric borders, and short ivory fringe is the look dealers mean by Afghan Bokhara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho made this tradition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurkmen weavers, historically women in family workshops across the Turkmen regions of Afghanistan and neighbouring areas, knotted these carpets for the home and for trade along routes through Bokhara. The same gul language appears on chuvals and main carpets. This 1980s Afghan example continues that workshop tradition: wool, hand knots, tribal geometry, vegetable colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent vintage condition. Pile looks unused. Strong colour. Not a newly made rug. About 45 years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrigin for customs: Afghanistan. Handmade wool pile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShips rolled from Bangkok. 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The ivory sawtooth edge is the running mountain, the boundary. Striped brown-and-red ends are the woven hem. A small rug for wall, bedside, or over another carpet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach diamond is a guarded plot of life. The sawtooth is the ridge that keeps the garden from spilling. Red is earth after rain. Dark brown is soil and night. Ivory is light on the ridge. A small cloth still says: this ground is ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKilims were the everyday language of Afghan village looms, faster than a piled rug, still full of meaning. Unused mid-century condition means the signs were kept, not worn away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. 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Natural abrash, the small shifts of color in hand-dyed wool, is part of the life of the piece, not a fault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the real world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe field is a lattice of diamonds on a taupe ground: red, purple, brown, and lime, each with a small cross or flower at the heart. In Afghan village and nomadic weaving a diamond is a seed plot, a field, and a protected house. Repeated across the cloth they become a garden of plots, harvest and heritage counted in squares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe borders are multicolored stripes set with small diamonds and triangular accents, lights along a path, the edge of a courtyard. This is tribal drawing with a lived-in ease: it sits as well in a collected room as it once sat in a tent or village house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiamonds in this language often mean protection, prosperity, and belonging. A mark in the center of a diamond is a hearth inside a wall. Lime and rose are spring. Red and purple are ripeness. The taupe field is earth at rest. Color here is a dry-land wish: that the ground stay alive, that the house stay watched, that plenty return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese techniques were passed through Afghan nomadic and village families for generations. A kilim was faster than a piled carpet and still full of meaning, a textile that could travel, gift, warm a floor, or hang on a wall. Skill shows in the diamonds staying in rank, the border colors keeping time, and the fringe left as the warp. Excellent vintage condition. One of a kind. 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