Age of Youmud rug

[Joe Lawrence Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Joe Lawrence]

You mentioned “As we could see from the papers it could not be later than 1946” Can you post a pic of the papers? Thus far, I cannot see a possible nearly 100 year old rug.

[Phil Smythe Member Find all posts View Profile Close Phil Smythe]

Well Philip, for me it is like a wrining on a wall. What else could it be? this is typical Yomud guls. Kepse if i am not mistaken. As a reference you could compare with a poor picture in an old Soviet rugs that were in production at a time in an old Soviet book I mean

I am not well versed enough in rug motifs to ascertain origin, hence my question.

And my question originated from noticing that Chuck showed a schematic of symmetric knots when illustrating knot count for your rug, so I wondered how he arrived at that (symmetric) observation, which I can only assume was from believing it to be Yomud.

[Konstantin Lapochkin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Konstantin Lapochkin]

You mentioned “As we could see from the papers it could not be later than 1946” Can you post a pic of the papers? Thus far, I cannot see a possible nearly 100 year old rug.

Here we go Joe. Of sourse I could not tell with 100 % sure that this paper iis from this rug. But the size, type, location and age fits precisely. You are right this is NOT 100 yo. but for sure around 1940