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| Pile | wool, medium clipped | Designs | geometric, boteh and afshar | | Warp/Weft | weft cotton or wool, warp wool | Colours | bright reds, blues and beiges | | Knots | Turkish, 250 - 500 sqi | Tribal | nomadic |
The Afsharis are a nomadic tribe from the Dschesireh (the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates). But when they fell into a dispute with the Turkish Sultan over their taxation, Shah Abbas the Great invited them to move into Persia, where they have ever since been domiciled, either as a nomadic or a semi nomadic population, especially in the region between Shiraz and Kerman.
The Afshari rugs are brightly coloured. The predominant hues are commonly blue, red, or ivory, in a number of small patterns with infinite variations between stylized and naturalistic floral motifs..
Rugs of coarse texture, so-called Tabachi are made from wool of the fleece removed from dead sheep with lime. In addition, there are specimens of the very finest quality, for which a silky, glossy wool has been used.
The finest are made in Saidabad, a largish town of the semi sedentary Afshars.
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