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Fachralo Kazak Caucasian, knotted circa 1905, antique, collector's item, 147 x 234 cm / 4'10" x 7'8" feet, id: K-3229
Vegetable dyes, the warp and the weft threads are 100%, the knots are hand spun lamb wool, the black knots are oxidized, certain places the pile is slightly short, the background and the surrounded large border are is indigo, at the center tree medallions, the selvages are woven on two lines with wool, both edges are finished with tiny kelim, in its original shape.
a similar example was published in the catalog of “passages Armenian Rugs” by Murray l. Eiland, Jr. on page 104.