Afghan Kazak Stars Rug 7x10 · Hand-Knotted WoolAfghan Kazak Stars Rug 7x10 | Red, Ivory, Navy & Gold | Hand-Knotted Wool

Bold geometry from the Caucasus

The original. Kazak rugs began in the villages of the southern Caucasus, between today’s Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, where weavers used thick wool and strong colors in large geometric medallions.

Woven today in Afghanistan. Weaving families in Afghanistan revived the style with hand-spun wool and plant dyes, keeping its bold shapes and adding the soft color shifts of handmade yarn.

Your rug. This 7x10 Kazak rug was woven by hand, one knot at a time. No other rug in the world is exactly like it.

Made by hand, in a family home

This rug was woven on a loom inside a family’s own home, most often by women, one knot at a time. A rug this size takes about three months to weave, which means steady income for a family in a country where paying work is scarce. We buy directly from weaving families and workshops we know, with no factories and no middlemen.

• Wool: sheared, washed and combed, then spun into yarn, much of it by hand.
• Dye: dyed in small batches, so every rug has gentle color shifts (abrash).
• Weaving: knotted by hand from a pattern or from memory, row after row.
• Finishing: beaten, sheared, singed, washed, stretched and dried by hand.

Read how our rugs are made

Rugistan® was founded in 2021 by Shams Frough. He served five years alongside U.S. forces as an interpreter in his native Afghanistan, then made Chicago home, where he put himself through college and is still studying today.

Shams and his wife run Rugistan® together, with showrooms in Evanston and Chicago. He still travels to the weaving regions himself and buys most of our rugs in person, from the families and workshops who make them. That's how we keep our prices fair. We also clean and repair handmade rugs.