A familiar format, these longer rugs from Sistan, in fact, seemingly reflect the design pool of smaller balisht.   By now, most Baluch aficionados are familiar with the partisan feelings I have for these rugs from Sistan, as they reflect the simple use of color and space to achieve an aesthetic that is seemingly related to the so-called ‘gabbeh’ look of other rugs types from elsewhere in Persia. 

Though never defined in the literature as such, the absence of a borrowed design pool that typifies Baluch weavings from elsewhere, including primarily those from Khorrasan with much of the contrived qualities of those rugs, is an attractive feature to my eye. 

One is not challenged to define a design type based upon, for the most part, our silly western perspective on what do they all mean?  We are always striving to find meaning in these very foreign patterns, which we ultimately are incapable of understanding, given our distance from all these weavings in both time and space, not to mention cultural context.

The condition is ok, there are some minor scattered spots of repiling (due to wear/corrosion), original selvedges are intact (for the most part).  The colors are all derived from natural dyes.