Handmade Rugs } Afghan Kundoz
AFGHAN KUNDOZ
All Kundoz carpets are woven in the north of the country between Maimanah to the west and Kunduz to the east, The wool used in Turkoman weaving is renowned in the trade for its lustrous and hard-wearing properties.
it comes from the famous indigenous breed of Karakul sheep, which is equally renowned in the fur trade for its Karakul lambskins. The Karakul sheep is a fat-tailed breed having a dual fleece, that is, two types of wool growing simultaneously.
The outer fleece has longer staples than the soft crinkly wool of the inner fleece, which when carefully sorted and blended produce ideal carpet wool. Carding and spinning is carried out by hand, The balls of wool are made into skeins which are then dyed, either by the weaver's family in its own compound or by professional dyers in the bazaar.
Though aniline yes have been used since their invention at the turn of the century, there is now a growing tendency among the Turkomans to revert to the use of natural dyestuffs. Those most commonly used are adder, the root of a spindly bush which grows abundantly in many of the carpet-producing areas, for red; walnut peel ,for dark brown; pomegranate peel for light brown, and sparak, a wild flower from the steppes, for yellow.
The blues in Turkoman carpets are generally indigo. Traditionally on a horizontal loom weaving is usually done bywomen. All sizes of carpets and rugs, ranging from mats to runners to the "over-sizes", are made throughout the year. Larger carpets, however, because they are usually woven in the open are mainly produced during the summer months.
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