Caucasian Kazak Rug. What is your opinion?

[Lorenzo De Rosa Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Lorenzo De Rosa]

Hi to all of you! I would like to show you my last arrangement in my living room. I have just hung this caucasian Kazak Rug at the wall. I think it is a variant of a Lori Pampak type. I have had partially restored the rug that was quite damaged. I assume it is circa 1900. What are your opinions about this rug and the restoration? I attach a few photos. Thank you so much. Lorenzo

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

I think it looks great and nice display. I’d only recommend some nice 4k or 5k LED lighting to enhance it.

[Lorenzo De Rosa Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Lorenzo De Rosa]

Hi Joe, Thank you so much for your suggestion! What do you think about the rug? Lorenzo

[Steve Price Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Steve Price]

I think it looks great and nice display. I’d only recommend some nice 4k or 5k LED lighting to enhance it.

I agree. My wife visited Florence around Christmas and Lorenzo could have given it to her. We have 5k LED lighting.

Best

Steve Price

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

Lorenzo, your rug is nice and I like the slight abrash in the green color in the main field.
It was a good idea to place the piece on the wall to prevent any further damage. It appears the fringes are not secured and are a little uneven and there is some loss. Some like to remove some the weft and knots to make a straight line then secure the fringes. I would not recommend this as the loss would be to significant and you would lose the wonderful border that is mostly still intact. Having it on the wall will prevent further unraveling in this area.

Lighting. I use 5k dimmable LED ceiling lights. My type are adjustable starting at 2700k. Here are some examples of what that lighting can do.

One ceiling LED room light for the entire room



In a different smaller room with natural light



In a different room with 2 dedicated 5k lights at a 45 degree angle on the piece



You may notice the left border has been repaired. This was an extremely complicated repair for me but it worked out well. The piece is a late 19c Afshar tent bag.

[Lorenzo De Rosa Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Lorenzo De Rosa]

Hi Joe,

Thank you for your very interesting and kind reply! So, this is the story of this Rug. I bought it just more than year ago, and it was really in worst condition allover especially in the last medallion ,and had many big and little holes. I choice to repair it. The repair took four months of work, not to say that it has been very expensive! Honestly, I have to admit that the restoration has been not so good...I am not so satisfied and happy. It had been my first restoration so I had no idea and experience about. The borders and some holes seem properly repaired, however the last medallion has been poorly restored. I liked the rug very much, this is the reason I restored it, though now I think that not only is not commercially viable, but at least in my case not satisfactory! The back of the rug photo was taken before the repair, then not correspond to the current condition. Yes, it hangs on the wall because it is not the case to lay it on the floor, and I think is nicer and of great display on the wall. Congratulations for your beautiful afshar rug. I notice the difference in lighting, indeed. Do you think my rug needs a particular type of lighting? I attach a few other photos. Thank you.

Lorenzo

[Erik Persson Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Erik Persson]

In my humble opinion your rug is quite stunning and well worth spending money on. As so often happens, you, who paid for the work, will be the one who notices the imperfect repairs - for the rest of us it just looks stunning...

Lately, I have also made some experiments with lighting and found out that cheap battery LED spots may work wonders with both paintings and rugs:

[Lorenzo De Rosa Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Lorenzo De Rosa]

Hi Erik,

I thank you so much for your kind words! I don't know whether the rug is quite stunning or not, certainly I liked it very much, and had hoped that the repair was better made. And regarding the beauty of the rug maybe I am not so knowledgable about rug, yet to be able to assess properly their value and importance. I am still learning to judge them, it is not a so easy task. I think the rug is nice and interesting, I least for me! Just, a last consideration about attribution...I let assess it to Perplexity AI, that I think is currently the most reliable artificial intelligence available online. In its opinion this is a late 19th early 20th century Kazak Rug, variant Bordjalou-Fachralo not Lori Pambak as I thought. Someone of you agree!?! Thank you.

Lorenzo

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Lorenzo, Since you are in Italy, ceiling mounted lights wouldn’t work as I’m sure you have very tall ceilings. I recall years ago living in Europe, the cheap and popular lighting were cables mounted from wall to wall at a height dictated by the user that supported very small bulbs suspended by wires that could be placed anywhere on the cables. I think it was 12v lights that were converted from 220v. I even recall IKEA and Metro selling them. It’s worth a try. . I do think it would really make the colors stand out.

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

I posted a comment on my IPad about lighting only to realize I wasn’t signed in. It should appear shortly as from a guest.

[Lorenzo De Rosa Registered Find all posts View Profile Close Lorenzo De Rosa]

Hi Joe,

Thank you for your suggestions about lighting! Honestly, I think that my ceiling is not so high...average height for a standard modern apartement here in Italy. So, I will see what is the best solution for lighting. Thanks.

Lorenzo