Antique Red and Blue Persian Heriz Rug

Beautiful antique Persian Heriz hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This Serapi rug has a navy-blue frame and ivory accents in an all-over gorgeous shabby chic design. This ru...

Beautiful antique Persian Heriz hand knotted wool rug with a red field, black and light blue accents in all-over floral medallion design. This rug measures 9' 11" x 11'.

Beautiful antique Persian distressed Heriz hand knotted wool rug with a red field. This Heriz rug has multi-color accents in an all-over gorgeous geometric floral design. This rug...

This beautiful antique Persian Heriz hand-knotted design rug. This collection is made in wool. It's measures are: 7'4'' x 10'9'' This antique Persian Heriz rug was made in Iran.

Beautiful antique Heriz hand-knotted wool rug with a red and beige field. This Heriz rug has a navy blue frame and multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over geometric medallion flor...

Beautiful antique Heriz hand-knotted oversized wool rug with a red and blue field. This Heriz rug has multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over medallion floral design. This rug ...

Antique Persian Heriz rug in blue, pink, red, white, and yellow Size: 11'0" × 11'5" (335 × 347 cm). This antique, hand-knotted blue Persian rug is made out of wool and was made aroun...

This Persian Heriz carpet created, circa 1920 consists of a cotton warp and weft, hand-knotted wool pile and organic vegetal dyes. Depicted are an exceptional medallion, border and f...

An antique Persian Heriz carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century. Heriz is the largest of the weaving towns. Most of these rugs feature a central geometric medallion surrou...

Originating from Persia in 1880, this antique Persian runner is hand-knotted in high-quality wool, featuring a Heriz design. Named for one of the most time-honored centers of Persian...

This carpet was woven in Northwest Persia (Iran) in an area located some 40 to 50 miles due east of the city of Tabriz – the provincial capital of Persian Azerbaijan and one-time capital of Imperial Persia prior to the fifteenth century. This province is bounded on the north by the Russian Caucasus, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the west by Turkey. The principal weaving towns of the area were, and are Karadja, Heriz, Sarab, Ahar, Bakshaish, Gorevan, and Mehrevan. As you may know, most rectilinear designed rugs are products of the tribes and villages; so it was not often that carpet (room) sizes were produced with designs in the geometric, or highly stylized, format. In about the middle of the nineteenth century, a revitalization of the rug-making art form began to take place after nearly two centuries of neglect due to destructive external forces which placed Persia in a survival mode for most of that period. It is said that the arts do not flourish when there is chaos and confusion, which depresses the all-important patronage necessary for artistic growth and development, so, in great measure, the rug weaving art returned to its roots in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries – a product of the tribes and villages, with the high art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all but dead. The nineteenth-century revival was stimulated by English and European trading companies acting in concert with the energetic merchants of Tabriz. It is accepted by most of us that the emergence of large-sized carpets with designs in the rectilinear was a result of the revival in Tabriz where designs in the very elaborate curvilinear form were provided to the surrounding country weavers to produce carpet sizes in these designs but within the framework of the country weaver’s capability to execute these designs. Thus emerged an interpretation with great character and pleasing simplicity. Agriculturally, the area is not particularly important, but the prosperous carpet weaving industry brought considerable relative wealth to some of the towns like Heriz. It was this area that produced remarkably tough carpets exhibiting that aforementioned character of design, The skill of the weavers was such that they were known to merely pin a piece of cloth on a wall or loom support – on which had been crudely drawn design elements – from which they could weave any sized carpet. A really astonishing feat of intuitive and instinctive planning. They truly represent that desired individuality in design but always within the framework of broad design formats peculiar to the region. Noted authority Arthur Urbane Dilley, in 1931, wrote the following describing the beauty of the Heriz district carpets: “Heriz rugs have supplied to a small group of discerning buyers, adaptable color harmonies of great beauty. Fine variegated color is to the older Heriz...

Antique Persian Heriz rug Size: 9'6" × 13'2" (289 × 401 cm) An early 20th century Persian Heriz antique rug displays a symmetrical pattern of botanical motifs, vines and palmettes wi...