Featured Afgan Rug Symbols ?

Looking for some info on the symbols used in this Afgan rug, particularly the two larger elements and the diamonds seen throughout. Also there is the curious signature like stitching in white seen lower left and right ? Any input is helpful.

 

@Drew - Yashar Bish:

https://www.yashar-bish.com/rug-motifs-symbols-and-meaning.html


and Kilim:

https://www.kilim.com/kilim-wiki/kilim-motifs


will usually give you a pretty good idea regarding interpretation.
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The signature is probably just that, with a date.

 

That's the strangest rug I've ever seen.
While it looks handmade, it also looks homemade, as the weaver had no real concept for the design, or the symmetry...and kinda made stuff up as they went along....finally running out of space............. It's a Mystery to me !!

 

it even looks like by the time they got to the last quarter of the weaving......
they got really drunk ..!!

 

how & where did u find this creature , Drew ??

 

It's an offering from E carpet gallery - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-knotted-Afghan-55-x-62-Rizbaft-Bordered-Geometric-Tribal-Wool-Rug/133238079436?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

 

and crafted using the finest weaving techniques
&
Quality: Excellent

Those statements............ those are lies...

That's possibly the worst looking rug I've ever seen......................

 

@komokwa - That's the way I've always felt looking at this horrid thing - "the worst looking book I've ever seen."





Also the most valuable book in existence.
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Well Sir, one should not judge a book by it's cover.....!
OH..wait.....that's not the cover...is it ?

You aren't suggesting that this rug is of any importance....... R U ???

 

@komokwa - I can't speak to that - only that it might be. That aside, it sure is one homely thing, isn't it?


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i think it was made next to a poppy field ....during heroin season....
or
finished during a Russian assault on the village....

or both !

 

@komokwa

 

yup......but that was a witches spell......

 

At first it reminded me of the abstract carpets - there used to be someone who sold only odd, abstract, even surreal carpets at the big Sunday outdoor market in New Milford Ct. The only symbol that I can ID on the red one is the 'eye' or 'evil eye' in this case, which may be most fitting in the end.

 

I would be skeptical about much of the discussions about symbolism. It seems to be a particularly western obsession about assigning meanings to every little motif. Pester a weaver long enough about the "meaning" and they will eventually make something up. And if it makes it easier to sell rugs, the dealer will sell meaning too.

 

Hwaet! Beowulf is nice, but I think the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels would be in the running for most valuable, not to mention Da Vinci's notebooks.

 

Definitely looks like something changed below the level of the signature: weaver, or condition of weaver.

 

Hi,
I know very little about the rugs but I can tell that at least three people worked on this rug. The change in the weaving shows that different people did the weaving.
greg

 

Maybe it got wet and shrunk unevenly.