Vintage Afghan Bokhara Wool Rug, Turkoman Gul, 1980
Vintage Afghan Bokhara Wool Rug, Turkoman Gul, 1980
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- 297 x 206 cm (9 ft 9 in x 6 ft 9 in), 6.1 sqm
- Wool pile on cotton foundation, hand-knotted
- Woven in Afghanistan
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Vintage hand-knotted Afghan Bokhara, also called Turkoman. Woven about 1980. Size 297 × 206 cm. 100% wool, vegetable dyes, high knot density.
What the wool is
Turkoman 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.
What the design is in the real world
A 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.
What the design is in the inner world
Each 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.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
Turkoman 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.
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Description
What the wool is
Turkoman 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.
What the design is in the real world
A 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.
What the design is in the inner world
Each 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.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
Turkoman 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.
Material
Wool
Hand-spun sheep’s wool is springy and warm. It holds dye inside the fibre, recovers after it is walked on, and wears slowly, over decades rather than years.
The foundation, the grid of threads the rug is woven on, is cotton, which keeps the rug flat and square.
Specifications
- Size
- 206 × 297 cm (6 ft 9 in × 9 ft 9 in)
- Area
- 6.1 m²
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Pile
- Wool
- Foundation
- Cotton
Foundation
The warp and weft: the grid of threads the pile is knotted onto. A cotton foundation keeps a rug flat and square; a wool one moves with the pile.
- Weave
- Hand-Knotted
Weave
Hand-knotted rugs have a pile made of individual knots tied by hand around the warp. Flatweaves such as kilims are woven with no pile, so they are thinner and often reversible.
- Age
- About 46 years
- Condition
- Excellent
- Made in
- Afghanistan
- Design
- Afghan Bokhara / Turkoman Gul
- Colours
- Red / Rust, Blue / Navy
- Rug ID
- 6
