We have rugs in every corner and nook in our house. I took early 4 months ago and now taking the time to find out what we have and how to take better care of it. From your feedback, I am cleaning my rugs differently and taking better care of the selvedges and fringes. I understand the impact on their value now. I've expanded my library to include a book on tribal rugs, rug repair, lexicon of rugs, etc. so with that knowledge, will be keeping some and replacing some and taking a lot better care of all of them. My question is on this rug we got 3 years ago from a resale shop for $75??? It measures 6' 3 " by 3' 6". It has a white wool warp and brown weft with a short pile. Is it newer, 1980's? Is this a Caucasus rug and what type? Does it has value or can it become an investment rug? It currently goes well in the hall upstairs, but I need to mind its frnges which are very long. Thanks a lot for your help.

Hi RugPro,
Is its attribution based on the colors, knots and design. How can you tell? Is it the wool warp? If you could help me understand, it would be greatly appreciated!!!!

A nice tribal rug for a very good price. I would guess this is a Turkish rug and I recommend you have chain stitching and trimming done on the fringe before the pile starts to unravel.

those are all fantastic books. unfortunately there are too many types with both Turkish and Afghan to really say how to tell the difference but it helps to see many, many many rugs from both weaving areas.

When you want to know ID we will always help - Books are amazing too, but you need to see and feel as many rugs as possible to learn them. One way may be to build a good reputation with a rug dealer / cleaner I am sure they will gladly share knowledge and should have plenty of stock to page through in the store.

Can you say that the Turkisk rugs all have Turkish knots and the Afghan rugs can have either Persian aymmetric knots or Turkish knots?