31"x47"

Just purchased this as a 1930 rug with no further description. The blues and yellows look bright for some of the classic rugs. The designs look crude, but I'm not sure what it will look like after a good cleaning. The back of the rug shows better sharpness was originally there. One guess is it is a newer rug trying to look old.

I had previously read an article stating a way to identify older rug is the gul/elephant feet width is greater than the height.


So my basic question is where this rug comes from and any guess regarding age, and are the colors vegatible or chemical?


Thanks

Yes, chemical colors. Not from Turkmenistan and I think 30-40 years old. Gul in this rug - is a stylized foot of the Ahal Tekke horse. I do not know from where this joke about gul / elephant feet, but the Turkmens do not have and never had a rugs with a design that is so called.

The Guls of the Ersari main carpets (sort of octagonal with four longer four shorter sides) *are* often called elefant foot guls. As bukhara points out, this is however not what the turkoman tribes them selves would have called them.