Antique Oversize Indo Kirman Rug, 14'7 x 23'9

Tabriz Design Oversize Rug 13' x 23'9. A classic recreation of an antique Persian Tabriz design hand knotted in Egypt using the finest of materials. Colors: cream/dark & light taupe/...

Antique oversize Persian terracotta Sultanabad rug, circa 1880. Size 17'6 x 23'9. This is a village carpet? Well, a rather large one, not your usual scatter 4 x 6 or room size 9 x 12. Sultanabad carpets were woven in the Arak/Markazi province, around the town of Sultanabad, from the mid-1880’s until WWI, under the aegis and contracts of Western carpet firms, primarily Ziegler and Hotz. Neither firm marked their carpets, but it has been the modern trade practice to attribute quality Sultanabad's to Ziegler. Ziegler had a centralized dye works, design studio, wool processing operation and washing facility, but no workshops, the actual weaving being farmed out to local household ateliers. The patterns were distributed via sampler mats (wagirehs), the knot density and color palettes were assigned, and sufficient wool and foundational cotton were also given out. This splendid carpet must have been woven from a set of extremely well-drawn samplers. The desirable rust-red madder field shows a classically derived allover pattern of knotted cloud bands, large and complex ragged palmettes, smaller palmettes, slender vinery, leaves and diminutive florets. The accent tones include cream, pale green, straw, and light brown. The taupe main border shows a repeating pattern of double barbed leaves, octogramme rosettes, trefoil palmettes, tilted petal palmettes and supporting vinery. A rust-red plain border frames the whole. The use of plain, field tone borders on larger Persian carpets...

Vintage Persian Kirman rug, circa 1920. Size: 13'8 x 19'5. This Kirman comes from the period when designs were in transition from traditional Persian patterns to those influenced by western tastes. The beige field is covered by curving leave boteh fantastic flowers blooming flowers and all manner of botanic ornaments...

Vintage Subdued Heriz Rug 11'6 X 14'7. The Heriz district of NW Persia has been weaving carpets for over a century, with geometric designs and tonalities ranging from mellow to satur...

Antique Kirman rug carpet, circa 1920, 5' x 8'9. Kirman carpets are like no other Persian carpets. For centuries there has been an independent design trend in Kirman in southeast Per...

Antique Kirman rug, circa 1880, 13' x 20'. Kirmans of the late 19th century are thin fine rugs with most often overall repeat pattern. Here a subtly colored diagonal lozenge lattice ...

Oversized antique Persian Kirman rug Size: 14'10" × 22'3" (452 × 678 cm) A late 19th century Persian Kirman (Kerman) antique rug, the slate blue field with an unusual design of grace...

Oversized Antique Persian Kirman carpet. Size: 14'0" × 22'6" (426 × 685 cm). A fine example from our selection of late 19th century antique Persian Kirman (Kerman) carpets, the san...

Vintage Oversize Persian Kirman Rug circa 1940. The detail in this handwoven, circa 1940s rug is testament to the skill of the mast...

Oversized Antique Persian Kirman Brown Rug Size: 16'7" × 25'8" (505 × 782 cm) An exceptional finely-woven late 19th century antique Persian Kirman carpet, with an intricate all-over ...

Oversized antique Persian Kirman botanic handmade wool rug Size: 14'7" × 26'0" (444 × 792 cm) One of the most exceptional example of early 20th century Persian Kirman (Kerman) antiqu...

Oversized antique Persian Kirman handmade wool carpet Size: 14'7" × 26'5" (444 × 805 cm) A finely-knotted late 19th century Karastan rug Kirman, the caram...