D3321 - Very Fine Tribal Sivas

D3321 - Very Fine Tribal SivasSize 258 x 162 cm, 8'6 x 5'4 Hand made in Afghanistan from hand spun wool and natural dyes This rug contains approximately 835920 knots, and would have taken 139 days to weave and finish These rugs are Turkoman tribal rugs from Northern Afghanistan using local Ghazni hand spun wool, which is probably the best wool in the world for hand knotted rugs. These Hazara tribes people are mostly Shia Muslim and badly persecuted by the Taliban majority.

Size 150 x 90 cm

and would have taken 110 days to weave and finish

This rug contains approximately 145200 knots

and would have taken 43 days to weave and finish Every pile rug has a nap so that the pile lies in one direction

Size 180 x 123 cm

This rug contains approximately 220000 knots

Size 124 x 87 cm

This rug contains approximately 1478640 knots

and would have taken 277 days to weave and finish

Size 207 x 156 cm

This rug contains approximately 270108 knots

Chechenya and Shirvan respectively are situated north of  Afghanistan and to the east of the Caspian sea and are all new Soviet republics