Afghan Pashm Rug hand-knotted runner carried across borders and centuries

carried across borders and centuries by weavers who settled in Afghanistan and never put the craft down

Stock Number: BR1091

Size: 490 x 82 cm | 16' x 2'8"

What looks like a repeating geometric field reveals itself slowly

Size: 170 x 115 cm

Afghan Pashm Rug hand-knotted runner carried across borders and centuriesPashm is the Farsi word for wool, and it is exactly what this rug is, nothing but wool, from the pile to the foundation. These rugs come from Shindand, a town in the Herat Province of Afghanistan, woven by tribal weavers who have been making them the same way for generations. What sets a Pashm apart the moment you see it is the pile. It is long, shaggy and dense in a way that most hand knotted rugs are not. It moves. It catches light differently from