What a rug

I picked up this beautiful hand loomed rug for $5.  As I admired it, it occurred to me that someone surely spent a long time on it.  I visited my friends at Azari Rug Gallery to have it looked at.  They were able to tell me within moments that it is a rug loomed in Afghanistan in the early 70's.  Afghanistan is very tribal, and each rug has it's own tribal markers.  I was told that the tribes were spreading out, and soon fine work like this will be gone forever.

I am going to hold on to my little piece of this history.

 Rug.  Value $250-350