Hand-knotted wool rugs in the Turkmen tradition, woven in Afghanistan: deep madder-red grounds with rows of medallions, called guls, inside narrow geometric borders. This section holds the classic smaller pieces, including Khal Mohammadi and Baluch rugs. Each rug is unique, and its exact size is on the listing.
Room-size Turkmen-design rugs of 300 × 200 cm (9 ft 10 in × 6 ft 7 in), often sold as “Bukhara” rugs, are in Afghan Rugs.
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Turkmen rugs are recognised by their guls: octagonal or lozenge-shaped medallions repeated in rows across the field, each tribe once having its own form. The ground is almost always red, from madder root, with the guls drawn in dark blue, black, ivory and orange, and the border is a narrow band of small geometric motifs. The wool is short and dense, which keeps the drawing crisp.
Khal Mohammadi is the name used in the Afghan rug trade for Turkmen-style rugs of a deep, even red with a fine, close pile. Baluch rugs are woven by Baluch weavers in western Afghanistan, around Herat; they are usually smaller, darker and more varied in their motifs than Turkmen rugs, often with touches of ivory or camel colour.
For centuries Turkmen rugs reached European buyers through the markets of Bukhara, so "Bukhara" became a trade name for the whole gul-pattern style. It describes the design, not where a rug was woven. Ours are woven in Afghanistan.
No. They are woven in Afghanistan, in the Turkmen and Baluch traditions. "Turkmen" here names the design.
Vacuum on a low setting without a rotating brush, turn the rug every few months and keep it out of strong sun. More advice is in the oriental rugs guide.
By tracked airmail from Bukhara, Uzbekistan: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20. Shipping is calculated by weight at checkout.
