Distressed Antique Mahal

The soft buff field presents a small allover Herati design in blue with especially prominent offset rows of little rosettes. Light border of outline turtles trapped in a vine scrolle...

The properly abrashed madder red field presents three columns of four large, ivory open lozenges centred by ivory ragged lozenges. Attractive poly chrome leafy plants are paired betw...

The lucid light blue field displays a symmetric large palmette pattern within a rust palmette border. This west Persian village carpet lightly distressed...

The runs of white foundational cotton on this distressed village carpet, add to the basic tonality of dusty rust and dark blue in a field of detached floral sprays. Camel strip style...

This antique distressed mahal is an all wool Handmade and Hand knotted rug. This distinctive area rug that has an all over design and wide stylized ...

This Antique Distressed Mahal is an all wool Handmade and Hand knotted rug. It has an all over design from the 20th century and was made in Ir...

This Antique Distressed Mahal is an all wool Handmade and Hand knotted rug. It has an all over design from the 20th century and was made in Iran. The name is derived from the Mahallat village where the rugs were crafted, and they are characterized by beautifully intricate designs and a coarser knotting style. The Mahal carpets in this time period were most often made by an entire family, which explains the loose-to-moderate weaving. They also tend to have a thicker pile like the rural and tribal rugs of the time. There is nothing comparable to the rarity and beauty of a Mahal Persian carpet from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These rugs are regarded as some of the best examples of folk art weaving...

This Antique Distressed Mahal is an all wool Handmade and Hand knotted rug. It has an all over design from the 20th century and was made in Iran. The name is derived from the Mahalla...