An early 20th century North Indian Kerman rug woven with silk sheen wool. Sparkling accents in pink, blue and raspberry on a brown colored field. Measures: 10'7'' x 13'6'' Unlike antique Agra carpets manufactured in the prisons of India, antique North Indian rugs were products of a cottage industry controlled by families of carpet weavers. With a knotted pile of the softest pashmina wool, the antique North Indian carpets originated and perfected by these weaving families, have to this day, rarely been equalled.