Gajari Flatweave Rug, Uzbekistan

Dozens of small arguments in red, orange and white, none of them quite resolved.

This Gajari flatweave rug comes from Uzbekistan, 20th century, in wool. In Central Asia, weavers working on narrow looms made long bands and then sewed them together, producing flatweaves for covering floors and bedding in homes and tents. Here deep red stripes carry alternating rows of triangles, zigzags and hooked shapes in orange and white. The patterns do not line up exactly from one strip to the next, and a reddish edge finishes the sides. It runs over ten feet long.

Near enough has seldom looked so deliberate.