Colourful red Afghan Belouch Mat

Ideal for numerous places around your home this colourful red Afghan Belouch mat will add vibrancy and interest to wherever you position it. It's a handy size to use as a door mat rug, beside rug, or even as a small hearth rug/mat. 

This small handmade Afghan rug has a rich red main field colour as well as an abundance of detail touches in shades of blue, dark bottle green, orange, midnight blue and cream.

The design shows a traditional theme of a uniform arrangement of nine Bokhara-like gul motifs. These traditional tribal emblems draw influence from Turkoman rugs of the Tekke and Yamoud tribes. 

Learn some more about this colourful red Afghan Belouch Mat

This small Afghan Belouch rug was handmade in north-west Afghanistan, near to Herat. 

It was handwoven by the Belouch tribe. The Belouch were prolific weavers of all sorts of rugs and tribal trappings. Prayer rugs are a particular speciality of the Belouch. Usually the colour palette of Belouch rugs is relatively dark or sombre in appearance. 

This Afghan Belouch mat would most likely have been woven perhaps as the face of a tribal bag, or maybe given it's fineness, as the front of a cushion. 

What this small red Afghan rug is made from, and how it was made

This rug was handmade from traditional rug weaving materials, wool for the pile and cotton for the warp threads. 

The luxuriously velvety woollen pile was hand-knotted. This is a meticulous rug making method, where each tuft of pile is made from a hand-tied knot secured onto pairs of cotton warp threads. Even in a small rug like this, there are thousands of knots. Do not be deceived by the moderate price point of this rug, this is a cracking little rug!

Key details: 

• Country of origin: Afghanistan
• Size: 52×105cm / 1’9″x3’5″
• Thickness: 7mm
• Pile: Wool, hand-knotted
• Warp: Cotton
• Age: Perhaps up to 20 years old.
• Condition: Full pile.