Hand-Knotted Kazak Wool Rug, Blue Field, Geometric Diamonds
Hand-Knotted Kazak Wool Rug, Blue Field, Geometric Diamonds
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- 206 x 148 cm (6 ft 9 in x 4 ft 10 in), 3.0 sqm
- Wool pile on wool foundation, hand-knotted
- Woven in Pakistan
- Free worldwide shipping with tracking
- 30-day returns
- Lifetime warranty*
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Hand-knotted Kazak rug in the Caucasian geometric tradition. Size 206 × 148 cm. Wool on wool, Ghiordes knots, vegetable dyes, natural fringes.
What the wool is
Dense wool pile on a wool foundation. Vegetable dye gives the blue its depth and the red its warmth. Tight knots keep every hook readable.
What the design is in the real world
A mountain-blue field. Three ranks of hooked diamonds, ivory and sage down the center, madder red at the sides. Each diamond is a small fortress: star inside, hooks outside. The ivory border of cruciform medallions is the second wall. This is a map of protected houses on open ground.
What the design is in the inner world
Blue is night and mountain, the place the pattern must shine. A diamond with hooks is a soul with a boundary. A star inside it is the living center. Walking the length of the rug is walking a path of guarded lights.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
Holding three columns of diamonds without the design drifting is loom discipline. Corner turns on the ivory border close the world of the rug. That closed world is the village idea of safety.
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Description
What the wool is
Dense wool pile on a wool foundation. Vegetable dye gives the blue its depth and the red its warmth. Tight knots keep every hook readable.
What the design is in the real world
A mountain-blue field. Three ranks of hooked diamonds, ivory and sage down the center, madder red at the sides. Each diamond is a small fortress: star inside, hooks outside. The ivory border of cruciform medallions is the second wall. This is a map of protected houses on open ground.
What the design is in the inner world
Blue is night and mountain, the place the pattern must shine. A diamond with hooks is a soul with a boundary. A star inside it is the living center. Walking the length of the rug is walking a path of guarded lights.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
Holding three columns of diamonds without the design drifting is loom discipline. Corner turns on the ivory border close the world of the rug. That closed world is the village idea of safety.
Brand new.
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 wool too, so the whole rug moves and ages as one.
Specifications
- Size
- 148 × 206 cm (4 ft 10 in × 6 ft 9 in)
- Area
- 3.0 m²
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Pile
- Wool
- Foundation
- Wool
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.
- Condition
- Excellent
- Made in
- Pakistan
- Design
- Kazak Blue Geometric Diamonds
- Colours
- Blue / Navy, Ivory / Cream
- Rug ID
- 5
