Belutsch
166 × 87 cm
359 €
Belutsch
508 €
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198 × 103(2.04 m²)
Hand-knotted
20-40 Years
Iran / Persia
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About This Belutsch
Where it comes from
This is a Baluch, also written Belouch, a tribal weaving from the borderlands of southeastern Iran, measuring 198 x 103 cm (6'6" x 3'5"). Baluch rugs are woven from memory on portable looms, their geometry bold and their colour deep and earthy, and prayer-niche layouts are common among them. This piece carries none of that: no medallion, no niche, only a field given over entirely to pattern.
What you see
The ground is a deep wine red, and across it runs a dense, symmetrical lattice of diamonds, each cell holding its own small rosette, every line drawn in black-brown. With no centre to rest on, the eye moves outward to the border, and there the rug becomes unusually generous: a broad red band filled with dark hooked and stepped motifs, held on both sides by several narrow ivory guard stripes edged with small triangles, each one clearly separated from the last. The framing does the work a medallion would normally do.
How it was made
That framing is also where the labour shows. At 128,000 to 160,000 knots per square metre, tied by hand into a cotton warp over what would have been months at the loom, the density is enough to carry a lattice this fine and a border sequence this layered without either blurring into the other. The pile is hand-spun wool, sheared to 6 mm, and hand-spun yarn is never perfectly even in thickness, which is why the surface has a slightly nubbly, matte character rather than a sheen. Twenty to forty years of settling has only made that texture more pronounced.
At home
A rug this size suits a hallway or a landing, somewhere a person passes rather than lingers, and the wine red and black-brown hold their own even where daylight is scarce. Underfoot it is dense and firm, the kind of weave that takes daily footsteps without complaint rather than one to be stepped around. What stays with you is the border: on a piece with no centre to draw the eye, it is the frame, layer after layer of it, that gives the rug its weight, and it rewards a second look every time you pass.
More on Baluch rugs: origin, making and how to recognise a genuine piece
Product Details
- Rug No.
- 543894
- Size
- 198 × 103 cm (2.04 m²)
- Thickness
- ca. 6 mm
- Knots
- 128,000 – 160,000 / m²
- Craft
- Hand-knotted
- Pile
- Hand-spun Wool
- Warp
- Cotton
- Origin
- Iran / Persia
- Age
- 20-40 Years
- Condition
- Perfect★★★★★
- Pattern
- All-Over Pattern
- Weight
- ca. 6 kg
- Stock
- Unique — Only 1
Traditional weave
Questions about this rug
Which room is this rug for?
At 198 × 103 cm (2.04 m²) this is a small rug. It works beside a bed, in a reading corner, in front of a fireplace or as a mat by a door. It does not furnish a room; it makes a point in one.
Is this rug hand-knotted?
Yes, knotted by hand — knot by knot on a loom, not machine-made. The density is 128,000 to 160,000 knots per square metre; across 2.04 m² that is roughly 260,000 to 330,000 individual knots, every one of them tied by hand.
How do I care for this rug?
Hand-spun wool still carries its own lanolin, which keeps liquid sitting on the surface for a moment: blot quickly, with clear water and a light cloth, working inwards and without rubbing. Otherwise regular vacuuming along the pile is enough. Turn the rug once or twice a year so light and footfall reach it evenly.
Still have a question?
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Ref: 543894
