10'9" X 5'9" Rare Antique Baluch Dowry Kilim [020] Apricot

10'9" X 5'9" Rare Antique Baluch Dowry Kilim [020] ApricotRare antique Baluch dowry kilim. This piece features intimate rows with various weft floats and tribal motifs. Wool and silk tufts embroidered into the weft called wishes. Possibly from the Quali I Neau tribe. 5 wood colors made with vegetable dyes and given a museum quality hand wash.

Original condition with one small hole

Rare small tribal rug originating from Afghanistan

This antique Persian Malayer has a garden-like design with flowers

Large striped flatwoven ends show spaced amulets on a rich eggplant purple brown attributed to the Yomut/Yomud

Reference: Our example differs from published pieces

Slight loss to all sides

It is finished with a meandering vine border on saturated cherry red

this piece features five vibrant colors

Features a madder red field that displays a 4 X10 arrangement of large rounded Tekke guls and secondary Gurbaghe guls connected by a fine indigo blue line

with a serrated acanthus leaf along each side of the motif

The Russian Collections

smooth wool