Here's an antique Persian Baluch from around 1900, woven by nomadic hands somewhere in the vast tribal reaches of eastern Persia, where the landscape itself is the color palette: deep indigo night sky, warm camel earth, brick-red embers, aged ivory. The field is covered with small, tribal geometric motifs. Up close it reveals itself in extraordinary detail: ivory outlines, warm taupe and brown fills, with tiny brick accent dots. The border carries its own layered system: a main stripe of small diamond motifs flanked by the classic running-S meander and a stepped sawtooth guard, all in a an earthy palette of rust, navy, khaki, and cream.
Now, let's talk construction. The field is hand-knotted, low pile with an aged-in softness that only a century of living can give, woven with vegetable dyed wool. The ends, are finished in flat weave...a completely different technique woven seamlessly into the same piece. This was characteristic Baluch practice: the nomadic weaver shifting between knotted pile and weft-faced flat weave as the rug demanded it. It’s a textile of two voices, and they harmonize beautifully.
One end has a tear at the kilim, that's life, sometimes we get cuts and bruises. It' old, it's live, and this is part of it's story. It does not affect the pile field or the integrity of the rug.
The handle is floppy and Baluch pieces like this are lighter than other Persians, generally speaking. A custom cut rug pad will come along with this old Persian, to keep it nice and snug.
The Rug Rundown…
the wool…the weave…the wear
Size: 3’9 x 5’5
Material: Vegetable dyed wool on wool foundation
Construction: Hand-knotted pile field with flat weave kilim ends. Two traditional techniques in one rug
Age: Circa 1900
Design: All-over geometric motifs on deep indigo ground
Condition: Low, even pile throughout; floppy. One end has a kilim tear.
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