W&W Khamseh district village rug, early 20th C. lot 44

Maslaghan Rugs

• Maslaghan is a village due east of Hamadan in the Karaghan area near Kerdar and Nobearan. For many years those rugs were attributed Mosul and were thought to be Kurdish. They could be Kurdish but I am not absolutely sure.

• Notes on the Jim Bowen's Maslaghan

• Maslaghan Runner

Single weft is called "Sennah Baft" or Hamadan weave. Here the wefts are rigid and the warps are sinuous. As you can see in the sketch the wefts are heavier than the warps. It is woven with symmetrical knots. Since there is only one shot of weft between each row of knots this shows every other warp which makes these rugs easy to spot.