Abrash ابرش

Abrash (ابرش) is a change of shade in horizontal bands across the width of a rug, where the weaver moved on to wool from a different dye or wool lot. Read it on the whole rug: a shift at the same height on both long borders is abrash, while a smooth diagonal gradient is lighting. It is a sign of hand-dyed, small-batch wool, not a fault. The word means dappled, as of a horse.

Also abrashed · abrash colouring · abrash colours · colour banding

See also Handspun wool, Natural dye, Chrome dye

Last reviewed November 2026