In this rug one sees familiar elements of the Baluch design vocabulary. They are, however, rendered in a rustic manner suggesting a genuine tribal context for the work.

Three Baluch-type trees divide the field vertically. Reciprocal animal or bird heads rather than the more common sectioned leaves populate the trees. Three rows of white flower-heads or ‘nectarine’ blossoms provide balance and stability to the field composition.

The ground color of the field supports the probability that this rug was woven in a tribal setting. All the colors in this rug are from natural dyes sources. The red is from madder root (runass).  However, in this rug it appears in three different shades.

Madder root grows over large areas of Khorasan. Normally, the mordant was either alum (sadie sefid) or clay which also contains aluminum sulphates. The Baluch harvested the root at a relatively early age (after three-four years compared to the traditional seven). The mordant and the age of the root contributed significantly to the extensive presences of a brownish-red in Baluch weaving.

In addition, this rug also has a dark ruby-red and a somewhat lighter shade of the same color. These colors present themselves in three abrashed strips across the field.