Belutsch
166 × 87 cm
359 €
Belutsch
486 €
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195 × 100(1.95 m²)
Hand-knotted
20-40 Years
Iran / Persia
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About This Belutsch
Where it comes from
This is a Baluch runner, also written Belouch, a tribal weaving from the borderlands of southeastern Iran, 195 x 100 cm (6'5" x 3'3"). The type is known for deep, earthy reds and indigo, and for geometric patterns that often echo a mosque's prayer niche. Here the geometry itself is the subject: a strict, marching repeat of small octagon medallions, set down with an evenness this weaving does not always show.
What you see
The field is a deep brick red, filled row after row with dark octagon medallions, each enclosing a stepped rosette in ivory. The medallions sit close and even, so the eye reads a grid before it reads a pattern. Around the field runs a wide border in near-black brown, filled with serrated, tree-like hooks in red, and beyond it a narrower band of ochre and red star-flowers. The border alone takes up close to a quarter of the rug's width, a frame as considered as the field it holds.
How it was made
The pile is hand-spun wool, knotted onto a cotton warp at 128,000 to 160,000 knots per square metre, a solid count for a rug made on a portable loom without a drawn plan. Hand-spun yarn is never perfectly even in thickness, which is what gives the surface its soft, matte, textured hand rather than a workshop's glassy finish. Harder to explain by material alone is the discipline of the layout: working from memory, the weaver kept every octagon close to the same size and spacing, a steadiness of hand rather than a casual one.
At home
At 100 cm wide, this suits a hallway, a landing, or the floor beside a bed. The brick red holds its own against dark wood and warms a corridor with little daylight of its own. Underfoot it is flat, tightly clipped and firm, made for a path that gets walked rather than admired. As light moves along it through the day, the ochre stars in the border catch first, the ordered octagons steady beneath them.
More on Baluch rugs: origin, making and how to recognise a genuine piece
Product Details
- Rug No.
- 794711
- Size
- 195 × 100 cm (1.95 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 195 × 100 cm (1.95 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 1.95 m² that is roughly 250,000 to 310,000 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.
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Ref: 794711
