I performed a "silk" test on the weave, snipped a loose thread and burned it, balled up and smelled like burning hair, not sure how to test the weft? I looked at the soumak example, it looks more like the second rug that I have, silk on wool with animals woven into it, haven't seen any animals on others so will be posting it probably tomorrow. I would like a ballpark estimate on the value for this rug if possible as well. I am thinking of selling one or both of them depending on the values even though we have had fun through the years spotting the "mistakes", the two sides, left to right, are ALMOST carbon copies but there are very subtle differences as the faith requires. And if I'm doing the math and measuring correctly the KPSI would be roughly 204. I have also counted over 9 colors. The size is 6.4 X 4