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Baluchi
Baluchi
rugs are mainly woven by Baluchi tribal weavers in
southwest of Pakistan,
northeast of Iran and northwest of Afghanistan.
Baluchi rugs are mainly geometric.
The Blauchi tree-of-life prayer rug is the most well
known of all Baluchi designs. Other designs include
repeating all-overs with floral motifs or repeating
all-overs with abstract living creatures such as animals
(birds are common) and humans. The main colors used
in Baluchi rugs are red, dark blue, camel, beige and
white. A common border design is a zigzag design also
seen in Turkoman and Anatolian
borders. Baluchi rugs are generally made in small sizes.
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Even
though Baluchi rugs are sometimes sold under the name of the
specific tribe which has woven them such as the Mushwani,
Nishapur, Dokhtar-e-Ghazi, Koudani and Haft Bolah and the
village of Chichaksu, often times Baluchi rugs are marketed
by the names of Mashad or Herat Baluchi. Herat Baluchi rugs
are made in Afghanistan and are mainly prayer rugs. The Mashad
Baluchi rugs are made in Iran and are generally all-over repeats.
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The
famous tree-of-life prayer rug has several minor borders
and guard strips. The mihrab is in a camel color, usually
undyed camel hair, which looks like a very geometric narrow
and long human trunk with a square head. Above the mihrab
arch, on the field, there are two square corners very
similar to the design and the color of the interior of
the mihrab itself. The design inside the mihrab includes
a tree with several branches with maple leaves. Each leaf
is divided into four quarters. The quarters across from
each other are the same color; two are blue and two are
red. Inside the head (top of the tree) the leaves become
more similar to the Turkoman gul. The borders are generally
in red, navy and very little white with small geometric
shapes that look similar to hooks or the Turkoman gul.
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In
the all-over layout with repeating floral motifs, a common
design consists of rows of red square flowers with smaller
white flowers in between the rows. The background is generally
dark blue and the flowers are usually inside a lattice
of some form, sometimes a diamond shape. The main borders
are generally red. The minor borders have the zigzag design
in white. These designs are often called Mina-khani.
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