Baluch rug

Baluch rug
from eastern Persia
circa 1900
Size: 204 x 116 cm

List Price: $. 990
Sale Price: $. 550

A great number of old oriental rugs are made using just four ingredients – white wool, brown wool (or camel hair) and the dyestuffs indigo and madder. The mainstream of Baluchi weavings are readily identifiable through their dark palette of madder reds, browns and indigo blue.