I have seen different rugs on ebay named bokhara, and then I read in the books that there is a "fine bokhara" which seems to be the elite of turkomen. First are the names just interchangable, or is there truely a fine bokhara that is desireable.

Second, the little rug/mat 2'by3' has a very fine knot and appears to be silk. The smell when burning it is definately a animal smell altough it would seem to fine to be wool.

Does something like this have any value to a private party.. First, it needs some minor work with a loose salavage and some loss on one corner. It fits some other rugs in my office so I thought I would drap it over the cormer of my roll top desk.

But it's always nice to know if it's something of value or a commerized item almost like a T shirt shop in Hawaii.

I'm not sure if you can really see the knotting, but I count 22 row in the quarter.

Thanks again RugPro

Sorry for the few bad pictures, these should help.

Interesting.

Without seeing it, there are half-dozen explanations for what this may be.

Some of what come to mind are:
- Intentional "mistakes" to make carpets asymmetrical (i.e. a nod to God that nothing else is perfect)
- an upside-down lower case H (h- basically a y) can be read as a number- although I can't say why a number would be there.
- a simplified animal (dependent on the weaving)
-or like you said no specific reason.

This is all assuming that it is woven in with the regular knots in the pile.