Corridor Sized Camel Hair Serab Rug

An antique Serab camel hair rug we just acquired. The best antique rugs and carpets utilizing undyed camelhair are quite rare, as they represent a limited production of just a handful of the rug weaving villages and tribal encampments of the mountainous district of Northwest Persia. Prized camelhair yarn, often spun from the wool of the weaver's own camels yields exceptionally soft and glowing earth tones and like top quality sheep's wool, it is very strong and resilient to wear. Color striations, known as abrash, yield a surprisingly wide range of earth tone hues from blonde to wheat to walnut and even chocolate brown, greatly enhancing the aesthetic of this style of weaving. The major regions of origin were Persian Kurdistan and Azerbaijan. The most notable pieces come from the towns of Bijar, Malayer, Serab and Bakshaish and the surrounding villages. Most of the Camelhair rugs...

A lovely example of a camel wool handwoven Serab runner. The openness of the piece woven circa 1930's lends itself to so many different styles and locations,.

:: Triple center medallion in single column with sharp serrated contour all in diamond shaped contour with field overlays in an intricate checkered concentric layered reciprocating m...

Center medallion filled with pomegranates atop a watery blue ground. Fantastic color saturation and very unusual size with hard to find still intact outer side border - many of the t...

A lovely example of a camel wool handwoven Serab runner. The camel main ground with a central medallion surrounded by a main border in soft blues. The detail in the design has been c...

Diamond shaped center medallion with interior quatrefoil panel design motif bearing pomegranate floral top view atop an open field adorned at either end with diminutive finials and c...