Afghan Pashm Rug handmade-kilim Stock Number: BR1471

Stock Number: BR1471

and they are unlike anything else in Afghan weaving

including the Engsi variety

Stock Number: BR1074

the colours have already mellowed and the pile has settled into the kind of refinement that only natural dyes and fine wool together produce over time

Afghan Pashm Rug handmade-kilim Stock Number: BR1471Pashm 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