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RugStore: The Rugs of Afghanistan
About Afghanistan: Afghanistan is ideally located between Middle East and Indian subcontinent; toward its west is Iran. Afghanistan has withstood foreign invasion for centuries.
People used Craft and art as a medium to expose the impact of invasion and the changes under different reign. Further more, Afghanis are nomadic people moving from one place to another, they witness lot of transform in life and are depicted in the rugs they weave.
The material mostly used in making rugs are handspun Afghan wool with vegetable dye of different qualities. Rugs of Afghanistan have geometric patterns, as it prohibits the use of human and animal form.
Bokkara
Among, rugs produced in Afghanistan Bokkara rug is more famous, it is quarter octagon in shape and has gul motif. Bokkara rugs have big borders, columns and rows as its design. Rugs of Afghanistan express the original ethnic culture of life and this influence the buyer. Bokkara rugs are usually, good quality rugs with varying knots as per the quality.
Belouch rugs
After Bokkara rugs, the next famous nomadic rug is Belouch rugs, it is also known as the prayer rugs produced in different size, these rugs are designed with geometric motifs mainly. The colors used in the Belouch rugs are varied; they use dark brown, charcoal, rust and black with the geometric designs.
Afghan rugs
Rugs from Afghanistan are world famous, for its variety especially Afghan rugs are renowned for its attractive designs as the pattern are based on Turkoman design. The material used in making the rugs is wool. The wool is woven tightly with extreme thickness and it weighs heavy. The colors used in the rugs are mainly dark red hues with black or blue motifs, and at few instance the touches of ivory or green highlight the design elegantly. The designs of Afghan rugs are mostly octagons and the star shape imbibed inside, in the field eight point stars are constructed, the borders are mostly running vine with diamond design between and guard border have tooth design.
Kunduz rugs
The other popular rug from Afghanistan is Kunduz rugs with the Persian style and having tight knots with the attractive designs
War rug
In the year 1979, the invasion of Soviet Union brought in tremendous change; it affected the life of people in every possible way. To communicate their pathetic condition, people preferred rug weaving as the right medium to express the influence of war in their mind and life, so a new genre of rug came into existence and they are known as Afghan War Rug; it depicted the war climate and violent occupation of Soviet Union. The pattern was entirely different from the general geometric designs; it had images of helicopters, weapons and tanks, these rugs captured the clouds of modern era war. These rugs are flooded in the world market and have good recognition.
The rugs from Afghanistan are diverse in its design, as the influence
of various cultures and artistic sensibility, some rugs highlight the
Persian pattern and others rug have Oriental styles, and the main topic
holding the prominent place in the present rugs from the land of
Afghanistan is unique war history of Afghanistan.