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Designer: Haghighat Rugs Manufacturer: Haghighat Rugs Country: Iran Materials: Hand Woven Silk Style: Persian

Original Vintage Condition Style: Persian

Original Vintage Condition Dimensions: 1”H x 74”W x 60”D Style: Persian Style

Hand-knotted in dark gray wool and detailed in pure white silk, this modern Persian carpet measures 8’10” x 12’5” and belongs to the Orley Shabahang Animal Collection. Titled "Lion," this carpet was crafted in the exclusive Meyghan weave. Though this carpet is contemporary and new, the techniques used to weave this carpet are traditional and ancient. Wool, shorn from the Persian fat-tailed sheep, is hand-spun into yarn. This hand-spinning process is imperative. Hand-spinning the wool combines multiple strands of woolen fibers. Weavers still hand-spin wool because it creates a super-strong yarn, that once cut, creates fabulous stations only found in hand-knotted carpets. After spinning, dye-masters then utilize organic matters and dyes to obtain the steel-gray tones within the rug. After the dying process, the yarn must be washed with river water and baked in the sun to set the patina in the wool. Within our contemporary collection, many of our designs embody the spirit of tribal and traditional Persian carpets. Lion is directly inspired by tribal Ghashghai lion carpets...

Measuring 2’5” x 3’5”, this small and modest antique Balouchi carpet was crafted circa 1870 and belongs to Orley Shabahang’s Antique collection. Using only neutral tones and blue, th...

Vintage Moroccan rug, hand-knotted in wool with bright geometric motifs. Measures: 5'6" X 6'8".