Beluch 197 × 100 cm

Carpet No.: 6846

Size: 197×100 cm

Knot density: approximately 160,000 knots per m²

Age: 20-40 years old

Composition: wool

This rug is hand knotted and there may be slight differences in shape, thickness and pattern. This is especially true for nomadic rugs.

Workmanship: hand knotted

Beluch rugs come from Khorosan, on the border with Afghanistan, and are knotted by the women of the nomadic, semi-sedentary Beluch tribes, which number about 60,000 members. The name of this tribal group, written in different ways, Baluchi, Beluchi etc., derives from the term “Baloc”, which means cockscomb, which once, as today, is the male hairstyle of these people: a tuft of hair on the completely shaved head. The typical colors of these rugs are combinations of red-blue or red-blue-brown. The designs are mainly leaves, flowers, animals, the tree of life in many variations and a large quantity of figures and geometric shapes. The warp and weft are made of goat, sheep or camel hair. The pile is mostly low, medium-high shaving is rare. Often linked to the name Nain, it is followed by the denomination “La” which in Persian means layers, or the number of threads that make up a warp, used for knotting the carpet. The fewer “layers” therefore “la” there are, the more valuable the carpet is, for example a Nain 4La will be finer than a Nain 6La or 9La. Often these carpets, being true works of art, are signed in the frame at the top by the master knotter who made them, among the most famous is the master Habibian, who became famous for the very high quality of his carpets especially suitable for an elite of connoisseurs. In recent years, a production has also developed that has nothing to do with the Nain, the nain tabas belong to this category.