looking for insight into this signed colorful handmade rug - help?

[vintagegreen]

this is an 8 by 11 plus hand made cotton colorful rug - looks like an Indian Dhurrie rug but it is signed in two places and has a lead tag and is quite fetching and so I want to know if anyone recognizes the type within the rug...love to identify its provenance. photos show the verbiage... thank you!

[maxine*j · Accepted solution]

It lopoks Bassarabian, to my eye.   Moldova, I think.   Worth searching along that line.  Look at these images, to get the idea:

https://www.google.com/search?q=bessarabia+moldova+rug&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqvf7XjJ...

[argon38]

This is 1960, followed by the Cyrillic letters Г. (an abbreviation for the word  "year" in Russian and some other Slavic languages) and ДК (the letters DK). So the rug evidently dates from 1960.

[vintagegreen]

Maxine - Thanks! - I had also been thinking Russian... Romania it is! appreciate you. Vicki

[maxine*j]

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@vintagegreen wrote:

Maxine - Thanks! - I had also been thinking Russian... Romania it is! appreciate you. Vicki

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You'we welcome.  While Romania is part of Bessarabia, I doubt this is from Romania.   Moldova is the most likely, as I said.   The lettering is, as Argon points out, cyrillic.   Romania uses the Latin alphabet.   Moldova uses cyrillic.  

Anyhow, it is a bright and cheerful thing, as these rugs are.

[argon38]

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@maxine*j wrote:

You'we welcome.  While Romania is part of Bessarabia, I doubt this is from Romania.   Moldova is the most likely, as I said.   The lettering is, as Argon points out, cyrillic.   Romania uses the Latin alphabet.   Moldova uses cyrillic.  

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I am always hopelessly confused when it comes to issues of language and nationality in that part of Europe. From what I can gather, the Moldovan language is simply Romanian by another name, and can be written in either the Latin or the Cyrillic alphabets. But I do not think the Cyrillic abbreviation Г. can represent the Romanian word for "year" ("an"), so I'd say the text is more likely to be Russian than Moldovan. The point is rather academic, though. Given that Moldova was part of the USSR in 1960, it doesn't affect your conclusion that it came from the region.

[maxine*j]

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@argon38 wrote:

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I am always hopelessly confused when it comes to issues of language and nationality in that part of Europe...  

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DITTO!  But because it's dated 1960, the alphabet is cyrillic, and I happen to have seen several of these particular kilims featuring the exceptionally bright colors and the roses, I went with Moldova. 

You're right, though, that OP can be suitably vague and/or inclusive in keywords if she decides to list it for sale with no harm done.   And I may have done her a misservice by trying to keep it simple.

These are pretty

[vintagegreen]

thank you So helpful!

[vintagegreen]

Thank you both so much for your scholarship and detailed considerations - you're the best! and Best to you, each and both.