Carpets And Rugs #239064

Persian Bownat Rugs seem to be scarce these days. This one is a cracker! Visually fascinating: it is full of life - birds and flowers.

A rustic tribal gem from south-west Iran.

It has a hand-knotted wool pile knotted onto wool warps.

This Persian Senneh Rug is around 40 years old.

It was constructed with the old type single weft weave. It displays a superb depiction of the Herati pattern that is a classic rug pattern in western Iran.

A lovely example of Kurdish rug making from Persian Kurdistan.

It has a hand-knotted wool pile knotted onto cotton warps.

Persian Senneh Square Rug 1.63x1.50m
Square size Persian Senneh Rug.

Made in Iranian Kurdistan, rugs from Senneh are notoriously hard wearing. The wool used for the pile is particularly durable.

It has a wool pile hand-knotted onto cotton warps, with double weft construction.

Amazing quality antique Persian Kashan Rug from central Persia made in the early Twentieth Century.

It has a breath-takingly beautiful medallion and spandrels; the floral field is more open and with larger motifs than later date Kashan rugs. The border patterns are also expertly considered (designed) with the major motifs linking seemlessly even into and around the corners of the rug.

It has a wool pile: this has a fantastically glossy, silky feel to it. The wool pile is hand-knotted onto a cotton foundation with a tight double weft construction.

The colours are superb, and have retained their vibrancy. The brown leaves in the centre of the medallion have experienced some age-related corrosion (see image 6 below).

Attractive modern Persian Heriz Carpet with salmon field colour alongside a pleasingly uncluttered design.

Handmade in Iranian Azerbaijan Province, this Persian Heriz Carpet has a wool pile formed by handtied knots on a cotton foundation.

The weave is remarkably neat.

Classic medallion style Persian Kashan Carpet with traditional red and blue colour scheme.

Handmade in the central Persian city of Kashan. An impressive large size carpet. Ideal for dining room or living room setting.

Wool pile handknotted onto a cotton foundation.

Persian Mahal Carpet 3.90x2.88m
Medallion style Persian Mahal Carpet handmade in west Iran, close to Arak (Sultanabad).

Wonderful country house carpet.

Wool pile handknotted onto a cotton foundation.

Classical medallion style Persian Kashan Carpet. A lovely midnight blue ground piece which accentuates the intricate floral field patterns.

This is a fine quality carpet in a good large size. Circa 144 knots per square inch.

Handmade in the city of Kashan, central Iran.

It has a wool pile handknotted onto a cotton foundation. The wool is outstanding with a superb velvety feel.

Fine quality Persian Kashan rug in a classic Dozar size made circa 1940.

The medallion design is intricate and the floral field theme is complex and well executed. It has retained its colours well and has an attractive gentleness.

It has a velvety wool pile hand-knotted onto cotton warps with tight double-weft construction. Considering its age the condition is good, with one slight mark as shown in image 6 below.

This hand-knotted Persian Bidjar Carpet is a lovely fine quality.

Persian Bidjar Rugs can last for generations due to their unique weave of fine knotting along with thick pile.

The pile is so closely packed that when you walk on it, you are walking on the tips of the pile.

The design configuration is the Herati pattern which is favoured in Bidjar, and works especially well with fine knotting. The knotting is fine and intricate, creating a pattern of super clarity. The colours of this Persian Bidjar Carpet are attractive and expertly selected: contrasting in a classy eye-catching manner.

Fine Persian Isfahan Zaronim Rug with a distinctive and unusual colour scheme consisting of a dark blue ground surrounded by brown borders flanked by cream guard stripes.

The contrasting effect of the dark blue background colour along with the medallion design makes the pattern to appear as if it is "floating".

This Persian Isfahan Rug has a fine woollen pile with subtle silk tracery (outlining elements of the design) all formed by knots tied onto a silk foundation. (The silk foundation, i.e. warps, is apparent as the fringes are silk). As a warp thread silk is an excellent fibre as it has good tensile strength.

The benefit of the silk warp threads is that it allows the weaver to create small knots due to the thinness of

Fine quality Persian Tabriz Rug 50 Raj grade.

It has an all over pattern set against a black ground surrounded by a salmon colour border.

This Persian Tabriz Rug has a wool pile knotted onto a cotton foundation.

Persian Tabriz rugs are graded in units known as Raj. This Persian Tabriz Carpet is a 50 Raj (i.e. 50 rows of knots per Raj, which is the equivilent of 7cm). So, this Tabriz Carpet has circa 340 knots per square inch.

This fine Persian Tabriz Carpet has an especially elaborate design inspired by the tile work of the dome this is known as the "Gonbad" design.

The 3 weavers have skilfully executed the pattern. This Tabriz Carpet has a wool pile with sections of silk highlights. The silk elements divide the tile motifs as well as providing areas of silk tracery within the tile motifs. The pile is hand knotted onto a cotton foundation, the knotting is extremely fine, neat and consistent.

This Afghan Chubi Mat has a deep, dark blue background with two prominent plant motifs overlaid. The colours change depending on the viewing angle, this is captured in the images below.

It has a wool pile handknotted onto a cotton foundation.

This Afghan Fine Kazak Rug has a superb colour combination and a visually striking design - guaranteed to add interest and a real splash of colour!

It has a closely sheered wool pile using hand-spun wool and natural dyes, hand-knotted onto a cotton foundation.

This Veg Dye Afghan Kilim rug is outstanding value! The wonderful jolly colours show very gentle and delicate variations of shade.

This Veg Dye Afghan Kilim consists of wool and is a handmade flat-weave, i.e. no pile.

One of the excellent features of this type of kilim is that it is the same on both sides, meaning that it can be used either way up.

This Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug has an eye-catching double medallion design. The main colour of this Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug is a glowing browny-red tone, with secondary colour of a deep blue-black and additional elements of cream and brown.

The wool pile has an especially glossy feel. The pile is made from knots tied onto a cotton foundation.

This Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug displays an intriguing archaic medallion pattern. The main colour of this Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug is a glowing browny-red tone, with secondary colour of a deep blue-black and additional elements of cream and brown.

The wool pile has an especially glossy feel. The pile is made from knots tied onto a wool foundation.

This Veg Dye Afghan Kilim rug is outstanding value! The wonderful jolly colours show very gentle and delicate variations of shade.

This Veg Dye Afghan Kilim consists of wool and is a handmade flat-weave, i.e. no pile.

One of the excellent features of this type of kilim is that it is the same on both sides, meaning that it can be used either way up.

This is an intriguing vintage Berber Rug from Azilal province of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

The design is quirky and full of individuality.

It has a wool pile hand knotted onto a wool foundation.

A wonderful, rustic quality nomadic Persian Gabbeh Rug. The design is geometric: spidery and archaic.

This is the old type Gabbeh weave, with loads of weft threads between each row of knots. This weave can be seen in the final three images below.

The pile is wool and hand-knotted on warp threads, approx 75% are of animal hair and 25% wool. With so many weft threads between the rows of knots has the result of the pile being shaggy with a floppy handle.

This Moroccan Azilal Rug is a real splash of colour! A truly quirky tribal item. Certainly one of a kind.

It has a wool pile hand-knotted onto a cotton foundation; between the rows of knots there are loads of weft threads.

It has a bit of wear and slight staining commensurate with age and use.

This Persian Qashqai Rug has an eye-catching medallion with interestingly oversized pendants.

The field colour is a pleasing shade of terracotta, which shows plenty of subtle abrashes. These are the variations of colour that are typically found in nomad and village rugs where the dye lots are created in small batches. The corner colour is also relatively unusual for Qashqai rugs, as typically this would be dark blue or black.

It has a thick, soft wool pile handknotted onto a wool foundation.

This Persian Gabbeh Rug shows a charming chequerboard design featuring animals and plants.

This careful design configuration sees the animals (most likely to be goats) positioned in the beige squares and the tree motifs set in the brown and rust squares.

It has a thick, soft wool pile formed by handtied knots knotted onto a wool foundation.

The design of this Afghan Rug consists of a repeating theme of motifs known as guls.The main colour of this Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug is a glowing browny-red tone, with secondary colour of a deep blue-black and additional elements of cream and brown.

The wool pile has an especially glossy feel. The pile is made from knots tied onto a wool foundation.

This Persian Shouli Gabbeh Carpet has a narrow proportion. This type of Persian Gabbeh contains mostly natural coloured wools. This one features a 4 medallion linked centrepiece each medallion containing a solitary bird.

This Persian Gabbeh Carpet has a hand-knotted wool pile tied onto dark warp threads which appear to consist of a combination of wool and animal hair

This is an interesting, rustic old type Persian nomad Luri-Gabbeh Rug made circa 1950, south-west Persia. A unique rug full of personality.

This type of Gabbeh rug was made for the weavers own tent use. It contains an abundance of tribal charm - pure folk art.

The cream background enhances the eye-catching three offset pole medallions. Around the medallions there are filler motifs including donkeys on each side as well as camels complete with riders!

The pile is wool, hand-knotted onto a goat hair foundation. The last image below shows the multiple weft threads between each row of knotting. One end is fringed, the other is a band of flat weave of around 4cm. The dyes are mostly natural, perhaps with the exception of the orange.

The pile shows areas of wear in keeping with its age; there are no repairsrestorations.

This is an especially eye-catching rug. A really rustic, folk art item.

The intriguing patterns consist of fabric and the beige and brown backgrounds are wool.

This is a charming, unique rug.

This Persian Gabbeh Rug displays a traditional south-west Persian design, and was probably made by Qashqai weavers.

It has a thick wool pile hand-knotted onto a wool foundation.

This Gabbeh Rug shows an unusual amount of green (a particularly unusual shade) and has nice strong clear contrasting colours.

There is a tiny amount of fringe missing (a couple of strands) in one corner - see penultimate image below.

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This is a lovely thick, heavy quality Persian Gabbeh Rug.

On close inspection (see images 5 & 6 below) there are numerous different shades of colour within what appears at first sight to be a plain green rug.

It has a luxurious thick wool pile (approx 12mm thick), formed by handtied knots knotted onto a wool foundation. Fringe on one end, flat woven and bound under on the other end.

This Afghan Ziegler Zaroquart Rug has a superb colour scheme: it has a black background (slightly charcoal in tone) which contrasts attractively with the secondary shades of beige and gold.

Although the colour scheme appears delicate, the woollen pile is especially durable. This woollen pile is handmade, formed by knots (at approx 100 per square inch) tied onto a cotton foundation.

This Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug has an eye-catching double medallion design. The main colour of this Afghan Khan Mohamadi Rug is a glowing browny-red tone, with secondary colour of a deep blue-black and additional elements of cream and brown.

The wool pile has an especially glossy feel. The pile is made from knots tied onto a cotton foundation.

Afghan Butterflies Rug 1.83x1.20m
Supercool modern rug from Afghanistan.

This Afghan Rug has a wool pile handknotted onto cotton warps.

This Veg Dye Afghan Kilim rug is outstanding value! The wonderful jolly colours show very gentle and delicate variations of shade.

This Veg Dye Afghan Kilim consists of wool woven onto cotton warps and is a handmade flat-weave, i.e. no pile.

One of the excellent features of this type of kilim is that it is the same on both sides, meaning that it can be used either way up.

A really heavy quality! A Persian-like design reminiscent of Kirman rugs.

This Amritsar Rug has a thick wool pile, approximately 14mm thick.

The wool pile is formed by hand-tied knots at around 110 knots per square inch, tied onto a cotton foundation.

Small piece of fringe missing as shown in fifth image below. These long fringes are excluded from measurement. Buyer may wish to trim them to desired length.

The village of Joshagan lies about 75 miles north of Isfahan in central Iran. Here they have produced rugs and carpets of some reputation for centuries in a characteristic design that continues to this day.
This Persian Joshagan Mat has a wool pile handknotted onto a cotton foundation with double weft construction.

Fine Nepalese Rug 2.45x1.70m
Eye-catching Nepalese Rug.

Tibetan-like weave, wool pile with (art silk design) handknotted in Nepal.

Wow! Something a bit different this is a supercool modern rug from Afghanistan. An incredibly innovative design, with outstanding colours.

It has a wool pile hand-knotted onto a cotton foundation. Made of handspun wool and natural dyes.

The eye-catching "lightening" design of this Persian Kakaberu Rug is similar to that found in Persian Maslaghan Rugs. Maslaghan Rugs use the traditional Hamadan single weft weave (i.e. one passing weft thread after each row of knots).

In terms of weave this Persian Kakaberu Rug is different: it is double wefted in construction - this gives the rug a more solid and sturdy character.

This Persian Rug has a wool pile hand-knotted onto a cotton foundation.

This Afghan Ziegler Rug displays a muted, washed-out colour scheme. This understated look is achieved by the beige main central colour with a faint floral theme overlaid surrounded by a beige main border.

Although the colour scheme appears delicate, the woollen pile is especially durable. This woollen pile is handmade, formed by knots (at approx 100 per square inch) tied onto a cotton foundation.

This Persian Luri Carpet is unusual due to its pattern alongside its colour scheme.

It has purple tones as the main background colour.

Interestingly it appears to have a date inscribed (see image 4 below) which translates as 1385 (about 2007) - this could be a date or might relate to something else.

The pile consists of wool formed by knots hand-tied onto a cotton foundation.

Semi-Antique Persian Afshar Rug dating from the mid-Twentieth Century.

It shows an all-over "shield" design set against a dark blue background. It has the traditional off-square Afshar proportion.

It has a wool pile hand-knotted onto a wool foundation. It has low pile throughout , is clean and without any repairs.

This Afghan Khan Mohamadi Carpet has a stylish, contemporary appearance with its combination of a plain ground alongside a classic Khan Mohamadi style border. The main colour is a browny-red tone, with secondary colour of a deep blue-black and additional elements of cream and mustard.
It has a luxurious wool pile which is velvety to the touch, the pile is formed by hand-tied knots knotted onto a grey cotton foundation.

Beni Ouarain Rug 2.46x1.52m
This Moroccan Beni Ouarain Carpet has a lovely shaggy wool pile. Beige with brown.

A super-cool zig zag pattern.

Qashqai Gabbeh Rug 1.98x1.29m
An attractive Persian Gabbeh Rug made by Qashqai weavers. It has a simple, bold, striking design.

It has a medium height wool pile formed by knots tied onto wool warps.

Beni Ouarain Carpet 3.27x1.90m
Vintage Moroccan Beni Ouarain.

Classic two tone colour combination.

Thick, shaggy wool pile.

This Persian Carpet was made in Fars Province, south west Persia by tribeswomen of the Qashqai tribe.

This Qashqai Carpet has a single medallion set against a terracotta field upon which are a myriad of small filler motifs. This is a visually inspiring carpet full of artistic expression, interest and talking points.

The colours are especially pleasing with cozy shades of rusty terracottas and oranges.

As with the majority of Qashqai weavings, this Persian Qashqai Carpet has a wool pile hand knotted onto a wool foundation.

Persian Gabbeh Rug 1.30x1.04m
Jazzy Persian Gabbeh Rug; contains an abundance of artistic expression.

A unique rug.

It has a thick wool pile (approx 10mm thick) hand-knotted onto wool warps.

This Afghan Ziegler Rug displays a muted, washed-out colour scheme. This understated look is achieved by the beige main central colour with a faint floral theme overlaid surrounded by a rust-red main border.

Although the colour scheme appears delicate, the woollen pile is especially durable. This woollen pile is handmade, formed by knots (at approx 100 per square inch) tied onto a cotton foundation.

A visually striking purple colour with loads of variations of shade (abrash). Decorated with curious tribal emblems.

This Beni Mriry Carpet is a heavy, chunky quality. It has a thick wool pile hand-knotted onto wool warps (even the warps are dyed purple!).

Really quite a curious piece.