Afghan Pashm Rug hand-knotted runner Stock Number: BR1912

Stock Number: BR1912

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

Size: 170 x 115 cm

Size: 272 x 198 cm | 8'11" x 6'6"

What looks like a repeating geometric field reveals itself slowly

Afghan Pashm Rug hand-knotted runner Stock Number: BR1912Pashm 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