KIRMAN RUG
PROPERTY OF MRS. C. B. HOLMES, WATERBURY, CONN.
Knot.—Always the Ghiordes. Number vertically six to eight; number horizontally six to ten; number to square inch thirty-six to eighty.
Warp.—Dark twisted wool or goats' hair. Usually gray.
Woof.—As a rule wool, sometimes goats' or camels' hair. Usually several woof threads between each row of knots.
Nap.—Usually good heavy gray wool which is cut long; sometimes goats' hair, camels' hair, or kurk.
Weave.—Generally good, the knots being well tied.
Sides.—Always overcast, frequently with different colored wools, most frequently brown.
Ends.—Usually a thick narrow selvage with knotted fringe or loose warp ends. Nearly always one or two lines of colored wool run through the selvage. This is a Kurdish characteristic and is a distinguishing feature. Often the web of one end is turned back and hemmed.