Id. Among the Turkomans, Tekke pile weavings, together with those of the Salor, are the most finely knotted. The brown and ivory colours in the pile as well as in the warp and weft represent natural, undyed wool. Green was obtained by double-dyeing with yellow and blue. It is curious . . . Id. Distinguishing the Older from the Newer Dating pieces is difficult and often the subject of reasonable differences of opinion.
Older pieces tend to have a lower knot count than more recent pieces.
Jourdan, at 17. The designs of older pieces tend to be less busy and more spaciously organized than more recent pieces. Loges, at 19. A predominance of small ornaments in a Turkoman carpet may indicate a later period, as does the proliferation of the number of guard stripes. Early pieces have one or, at most, three stripes flanking the main border.