Antique Heriz Runner with Blue Field and Ivory Border

The saturated madder red field displays an allover pattern of forked, asymmetric leaf-palmettes, setting off a dark blue eight petal focus, and details in straw, ecru and medium blu...

Azerbaijan Province, Northwest Persia The madder red field displays a four barbed leaf and equally barbed hexagon repeat up the length of the panel. Narrow border system. Moderate...

The ivory field shows offset. Half-drop rows of flowers accented in dark blue, teal and red. Camel-straw border with serrated slanted leaves and bracketed rosettes. Reversing tilted ...

The abrashed camel-tone open field displays a pole medallion of five connected saw tooth-edged polygons decorated in ivory, yellow and green. Main light blue border of hexagon and ...

This West Persian runner shows 15 whole barbed lozenge cartouches forming a central pole, each enclosing a rosette, on a dark slate ground, with red, green and ecru accents. Straw bo...

This good condition Northwest Persian village carpet has a semi-geometric design beginning with the teal internally lobed octogramme medallion enclosing projecting palmettes. The tom...

This NW Persian village carpet shows a stepped beige and ivory field cent red by a large slate notched diamond medallion and soft salmon 4-pendant sub-medallion. Navy ragged palmette...

Antique Persian runner rug handwoven from the finest sheep’s wool and colored with all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for humans and pets. It’s a traditional Heriz design featu...

Antique Persian runner rug handwoven from the finest sheep’s wool and colored with all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for humans and pets. It’s a traditional Heriz design featu...

This extremely solidly woven, wool foundation, west Persian Kurdish town kellegi (long rug) features a closely rendered all-over Herati design accented in camel, old gold, cerulean blue and cream, on a navy indigo ground. Ivory reversing turtle border...

A stunning early 20th century Heriz Serapi rug. Heriz rugs are Persian rugs from the area of Heris, East Azerbaijan in northwest Iran, northeast of Tabriz. Such rugs are produced in the village of the same name in the slopes of Mount Sabalan. Heriz carpets are extremely durable and hard-wearing and they can last for generations. 19th century examples of such carpets are often found on sale by major auction houses in United States and Europe. New Herizes are thick, tough, and often reasonable in price. Such rugs age well and become more and more beautiful with age. Part of the reason for the toughness of Heriz carpets is that Mount Sabalan sits on a major deposit of copper. Traces of copper in the drinking water of sheep produces high quality wool that is far more resilient than wool from other areas.[citation needed] Heriz rug weavers often make them in geometric, bold patterns with a large medallion dominating the field. Such designs are traditional and often woven from memory. Heriz rugs are of coarse construction. The rugs range from 30 kpsi on the low end to 100 10 kpsi on the high end. It is rare to see a rug over 100 kpsi that would look like an authentic Heriz unless it is an antique silk Heriz.

Antique Persian runner rug handwoven from the finest sheep’s wool and colored with all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for humans and pets. It’s a traditional Heriz design featu...