Turkmen rug | 170 x 121 cm | Nr. 20536

2.390,00 €

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Turkmen rug

There is only one rug like this one in dark red and beige: it combines traditional craftsmanship with timeless elegance. With a knot density of approx. 360,000 knots per m², the painstaking workmanship shows above all in the precise drawing and the finely executed details. At 170 × 121 cm, it suits a bedroom or study. It comes into its own just as nicely in a small living room. Colouring and texture lend the room a homely atmosphere – with a character no other rug shares.

Delivery time	2 days
Origin	Turkmenistan
Dimensions	170 cm x 121 cm (= 2.06 m²)
Construction	hand-knotted
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes) Weft & Warp: pure silk
knots	360.000
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

This rug was knotted by members of the Turkmen tribes. The Turkmen are known above all for their Bukhara rugs. Bukhara (sometimes also written Bochara) is an oasis city in Uzbekistan that lies on the former Silk Road. Although no rugs were actually knotted in Bukhara itself, the city gave its name to many Oriental rugs, because they were traditionally exported to the West from Bukhara. These rugs, however, were knotted by Turkmen tribes such as the Yomoudh or the Tekke.

Material

The technique used to make the materials for the pile of this Turkmen rug is over 200 years old. The wool was dyed with natural colours and spun by hand. Dyeing with natural or plant dyes is more complicated, more expensive and more time-consuming than dyeing with chemical colours. For a luminous red, for example, you need around one kilo of ground madder root as dye per kilo of wool. For a strong yellow that is not too pale, you even need two kilograms of weld dye per kilo of wool. Spinning the wool is just as time-consuming and labour-intensive. And fewer and fewer people still know how to spin wool by hand.

But the effort is worth it: dyeing with natural colours allows the high-quality wool to keep its natural oil content. Wool that has been dyed with natural colours and spun by hand creates fascinating, shimmering patterns. The charm of hand-spun wool, with its slight irregularities and natural shades, comes into its own as a contrast in modern interiors, but equally in rooms furnished in a more traditional or country style.

On this Turkmen rug, even the foundation was made of pure silk. The thin yet hard-wearing material of the weft and warp threads allows for an exceptionally fine knotting and therefore an exceptionally fine pattern as well.

A note on the photos

The colours of this rug change depending on which side you look at it from. It all depends on whether the light falls with the nap of the pile or against it. That is why we have photographed the rug from several angles.

Child labour? No thanks.

Child labour? No thanks. Children belong in school, not at a knotting frame or a loom. For us it therefore goes without saying that we only offer rugs made under fair conditions and without child labour.

We attach particular importance to humane working conditions and tolerate no child labour at any of our producers. Thank you for helping us to ensure fair conditions.

That is why we support the initiative Care & Fair against child labour in the rug trade.