Oruzgan Lotuses Wool Carpet oversized carpet This rug is intricately crafted:

This rug is intricately crafted: the strong silk fibers utilized in its production permitted its skilled weavers to weave more knots per square inch (KPSI) than wool carpets contain

with their symmetrical columns of elephant’s foot motifs (gul designs)

variously interpret able as "according to my desire alone"

when you are standing in the opposite direction of its pile

Modern square motifs punctuate a soft ivory field in this handspun Ghazni wool rug from Pakistan

Oruzgan Lotuses Wool Carpet oversized carpet This rug is intricately crafted:The finishing of this carpet was done using centuries old traditional techniques. Once its laborious hand knotting was completed, it was rolled and entirely submerged in a sanitizing bath where its fibers fully absorbed all cleaning liquid. After which it was laid flat on the ground where a team of cleaners used wooden oar like paddles to push the water through its fibers and draw out impurities. Oar strokes were done in sync to prevent the carpet