Afghan · Tribal
Kazak geometry travelled south with Turkmen weavers and settled in Herat. Abdul dyes his own wool with madder root and walnut husk, so no two runs match exactly.
Uses your phone camera to place this carpet to scale. No app needed.
Abdul Wahid Noori
41 years at the loom in Herat Province. We have bought from this workshop since 2011 and pay the price they set.
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This piece is woven at 180 knots per square inch, which works out at roughly 1,138,322 knots in total — every one tied by hand by Abdul Wahid Noori, over 7 months.
Magnify past 13× and the field stops being a picture and becomes what it actually is: rows of individual knots, each one a decision about colour made at a particular moment.
The same test works in the shop, on any carpet, with no equipment. We wrote up how to do it in the back of the rug tells you everything.
Similar origin, weave and palette.
Afghan · Mazar-i-Sharif
240 × 340 cm · 220 KPSI · Wool