This Afghan Moshvani Red Rug is 273x207 in size and is woven with very good quality wool. It is very hard wearing, decorative, and beautiful, usually a shade of red in colour with geometric patterns.
An Afghan rug from the border of Uzbekistan belongs to the Afghan Turkestan family of rugs and may be from a number of different tribes. Khunduz rugs are perhaps the most well known, with their very tight knots in the Persian style. Andkhoy, Alti Bolaq, Sulayman, Maimana, Aq Shah, Barmazid, and Qarqeen are other tribal groups that produce high-quality Afghan rugs in the Turkestan region.
Afghanistan have a variety of rugs in their collection some of which are quite famous and their designs have been incorporated through other cultured influences, some examples of these are Khal Mohammedi, Hachaloo (four gates of paradise), Khunduz and the newly created Kargai rugs.
Their designs originated from Herat, in the Western part of Afghanistan, where a history of over two thousand five hundred years and was once occupied by Alexander the Great, and subsequently invaded by Mongols led by Genghis Khan and then Tamerlan in the 13th century. Herat was considered part of the Persian Empire, and the Persian influence in carpet making in Herat is still seen.